The Art of Remembrance

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Wearing a poppy is still a very personal choice, reflecting individual experiences and personal memories. Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s best-known textile artists with works in public and private collections. Mark Whitaker looks at some particularly striking and lesser known examples of these responses, assisted throughout by the leading expert on Remembrance, Professor Jay Winter.

Moreover, it invites viewers to reflect on the transgenerational emotional devastation wreaked by fascism and the ideology it propagated even after the war in publications such as the popular child-rearing guide Die deutsche Mutter und ihr erstes Kind (The German Mother and Her First Child, 1934), of which millions of copies were printed. Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps began working together under the name kennardphillipps in 2002, collaborating to produce art that responded to the build up to and aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Installed alongside the Munich Documentation Centre’s permanent display of artefacts, Jung’s drawings highlight the difficulty of keeping remembrance alive but, as with so many of the works in ‘Tell me about yesterday tomorrow’, they also underscore the role contemporary art can play in ensuring such historic atrocities are never forgotten and, crucially, never repeated. Max Gimblett's brass quatrefoils are a glimmering message of peace and remembrance for all New Zealanders who served in World War I.

In Germany, he discovers the paintings of Otto Dix, in particular The Match Seller showing the fate of a severely disabled veteran scraping a living on the street, ignored by the affluent passers-by. The process can be incredibly lengthy and complex but always fall into three key areas and not usually worked on in any one sequence.Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979) is one of the most enduringly popular of the artists commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC) in the Second World War, as well as being one of the longest serving.