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Dazzle ship (14–18 NOW)

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Work was started in preparation for the centenary of the outbreak of World War I in August 2014. While the artworks have been inspired by the First World War dazzle camouflage patterns, the brief has been widely interpreted in each case, and they bear little resemblance to the original dazzle
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Each pattern was unique to the ship for which it was designed, and tested in miniature form on models of the ship being treated. More than 400 warships and 4000 merchant vessels were thus painted by the end of the conflict.
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Dazzle camouflage involved covering a ship's hull with bespoke geometric patterns in contrasting colours with the aim of confusing, or “dazzling” an enemies
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The dazzle artwork ships are three vessels (joined later by a fourth), each covered with an artist-designed livery commissioned by the
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are artworks created to commemorate the work of the artists and artisans who developed and designed the
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efforts and rendering the ship less liable to be hit by torpedo or shell.
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used in the First World War by ships as a defence against
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Index

dazzle camouflage
U-boat


Tobias Rehberger

MV Edmund Gardner
range-finding
Imperial War Museum
14–18 NOW
Peter Blake
Mersey ferryboat
Snowdrop
River Mersey
Tobias Rehberger
HMS President
River Thames
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Edmund Gardner
Liverpool
Canning graving dock
Ciara Phillips
MV Fingal
Leith
Dazzle ships
Prepare to be dazzled
Everybody Razzle Dazzle
Archived
Wayback Machine
Dazzle ship London

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