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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sargent, John Singer (RA) - Gassed - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on September 21, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-09-21. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:01, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gassed
Gassed is a 231 × 611 cm (7.6 × 20 ft) oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. Painted after Sargent visited the Western Front on a commission by the British War Memorials Committee, it depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. The painting, voted picture of the year by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1919, is now held by the Imperial War Museum.Painting: John Singer Sargent

woolf and forster, good grief

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Who really cares what a couple of Bloomsburyites (many of whom, like Strachey, were avowed pacifists) thought about a painting that sympathetically depicted the soldiers in a war they despised? And really, if you think about their comments, they are actually a testament to the power of the work, when seen up close. I would recommend re-writing that section so that it contextualizes who they were – and keep in mind that the two of them moved in the same circles, and represent not only a single view of the work, but as well a minoritarian one. Sheesh. Theonemacduff (talk) 07:36, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 February 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved  — Amakuru (talk) 12:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]



Gassed (painting)Gassed – There is only one Gassed article: the painting. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). 2pou (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Clarityfiend and Buidhe: queried move request. -2pou (talk) 16:09, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Counting error

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found some errors in describing the painting. Thocla (talk) 02:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]