To create her dazzle camouflage design, Auerbach used a process known as marbling, or swirling pools of ink on paper to generate fluid patterns Nicholas Knight / Courtesy of the Public Art Fund This ...

During World War I, ships were painted in zebra stripes to deceive the enemy. The effectiveness of this “dazzle” camouflage was never quite clear, but a new study suggests that these zigzag patterns ...

On the centenary of World War I, two famous artists painted historic ships in the zany patterns “dazzle camouflage.” Vertigo ahead. In World War I, military ships were often painted with “dazzle ...

Tauba Auerbach will follow Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, and Carlos Cruz-Diez by transforming a fireboat in the avant-garde style devised during World War I. Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction Chromatique à ...

The Public Art Fund is diving into a new medium—the sea. This summer, the arts non-profit is presenting the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey with "dazzle camouflage" by Tauba Auerbach, and you can ...

A controversial, high-contrast camouflage that once decorated the hulls of World War I battleships really exists in nature — though whether humans are fooled remains an open question. "Motion dazzle" ...

Known as dazzle camo in the UK and razzle dazzle in the U.S., this type of camouflage is recognized for its hectic patterns of intersecting geometric shapes in different colors — originally black, ...

Madisonville resident Carol Olsen has spent her life studying various aspects of marine life, including earning a master’s degree in marine archaeology and pursuing a passion for ship decoration. Yet, ...

During World War I and World War II, there was this thing called razzle dazzle in the U.S. or dazzle camouflage in the United Kingdom. The effectiveness of the psychedelic pattern is still debated, ...