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A Fine Art Print Portfolio of Images by
Lowell Greenough and Poems by Wilfred Owen
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…
we shall remember them. This year of 2011 the calendar delivers a once in our lifetime date: 11.11.11 This is a unique opportunity to celebrate two anti war voices from two worlds four decades apart. One using words, one using images to express their views on the futility and tragic human cost of war.
Wilfred Owen, who was tragically killed in battle seven days before the Armistice in 1918, was a British poet and soldier. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of the trenches and gas warfare sat in stark contrast to the public perception of war at the time. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include "Dulce et Decorum Est” "Insensibility” "Anthem for Doomed Youth” "Futility’ and "Strange Meeting”.
Lowell Greenough was an artist and an activist. He became a conscientious objector during World War Two while serving with the Coast Guard. The Viet Nam War fueled his commitment further and he was active in a multitude of events in protest. Most importantly he began painting and drawing about his convictions. There is a large body of work related to this including the "Bombadier", “Metamorphosis of Edward Teller”, “Buried In Uniform”, “Hiroshima Girl” and “The Klansmen”. The anger and passion he felt about this most insane manifestation of man is apparent in the rawness of much of his work.
11.11.11 will bring together these two creative voices, one British and one American, for the first time, in a moving, soul searching, unique exhibition which will with searing images and soaring words question the often told lie, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patri Mori’.
Buried in Uniform
Hiroshima Girl
Metamorphisis of Edward Teller.
. . . Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight . . .
excerpt from 'Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patri Mori’
by Wilfred Owen
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight . . .
excerpt from 'Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patri Mori’
by Wilfred Owen
11.11.11 Lowell Greenough