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 ...
During World War I, U-boats were one of Germany’s most effective weapons. They snuck up underwater on British ships and ...
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" ...
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 ...
This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. During the First World War, patterns of “disruptive coloration” were applied directly to ...
A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual perception than dazzle paint. Reading time 3 minutes During World War I, ...
In 1917, British artist Norman Wilkinson experienced a eureka moment while serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Throughout the month of April, German U-boats had been mercilessly torpedoing ...
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" ...
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