Sig Bang Schmidt Great War Art: Bigangel

Angelic Imagery and Wartime Mourning

Angelic figures often appear in war art as symbols of protection, grief and remembrance. In the context of Great War memory, this image can be read as a reflection on loss and the need to give spiritual or symbolic meaning to mass death, suffering and the silence that followed the fighting.

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