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THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR

c,...MR...SARGENT'S "GASSED." ' ' Slrl-'Sargent's Academy picture, "Gassed," Vis acclaimed the picture of the year. "Mr. Sargenfs great decorative wort, 'Gassed,' is of a kind whioh leaves a deep impression on account of the. artistio and moral qualities being united into a. greatly moving whole." says the "Spectator." "The thing that makes the picture so impressive is its impersonality." . ,31r. Laurence Binyon, in the "New Statesman," says: "In conception it is ' admirable. It is called simply 'Gassed.' It records, I should imagine, a scene ' actually witnessed and a sceno quite unforgettable. It is an evening after battle. The full moon rises on the horizon, over the plain j but the glow of tho setting sun (behind the spectator) pervades 'the. atmosphere.. In the foreground lie ' men in khaki, crowded close, stupefied arid exhausted: and along a lane between ■ . these and another row of similarly prostrate figures comes a procession of men blinded by the gas, bandaged, and holding each".with a hand on the 6houlder of Vtho man in front. This frieze of lifesize figures dominates the canvas. From '. the' 1 near''distance, at right-angles to 'them, cornea another group of bandaged men, with the round moon behind them. ' The destination of both groups is a tent, 'the ropes' only of which are seen cutting ' diagonally into the design, and the 'shadow of which falls cold on' more than "half of the nearer group, the last figures moving still in the warm sunset light. In the distance, not noticed at first, but ' haring- an integral part in tho picture, 'is' a group of men playing football, ".'tlusters "of'white aeroplanes are in the

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6

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THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6

THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6

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