The British marine artist Norman Wilkinson invented Dazzle Camouflage – dazzle painting – for the British Admiralty in World War I – complex patterns of huge geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other, covering an entire ship. British warships weren't hidden at all but it became impossible to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading – the eye was fooled. It worked brilliantly. Picasso claimed that he and Cubists had invented...
more »The British marine artist Norman Wilkinson invented Dazzle Camouflage – dazzle painting – for the British Admiralty in World War I – complex patterns of huge geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other, covering an entire ship. British warships weren't hidden at all but it became impossible to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading – the eye was fooled. It worked brilliantly. Picasso claimed that he and Cubists had invented the whole thing but suddenly that didn't matter. Someone invented radar and dazzle painting was over – but the idea lives on, here on Sunset Boulevard. And it's not just the Lamborghini. The whole boulevard fools the eye. The whole boulevard dazzles the eye. ~ Wednesday, May 29, 2019
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