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- Camoufleurs abstract "A camoufleur is a person who designed and implemented military camouflage in one of the world wars of the twentieth century. The term was originally a person serving in a First World War French military camouflage unit. In the Second World War, the British camouflage officers of the Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate, led by Geoffrey Barkas in the Western Desert, called themselves camoufleurs, and edited a humorous newsletter called The Fortnightly Fluer. Such men were often professional artists. The term is used by extension for all First and Second World War camouflage specialists. Some of these pioneered camouflage techniques. This list is restricted to such notable pioneers of military camouflage.Surrealist artist Roland Penrose wrote that he and Julian Trevelyan were both \"wondering how either of us could be of any use in an occupation so completely foreign to us both as fighting a war, we decided that perhaps our knowledge of painting should find some application in camouflage.\" Trevelyan later admitted that their early efforts were amateurish. Working in camouflage was not a guarantee of a safe passage through the war. Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola's Section de Camouflage, founded in September 1914 in the French army, developed many new techniques, some of them highly dangerous, such as putting up artificial, camouflaged trees at night to replace actual trees with cramped observation posts. The cubist painter André Mare was wounded while preparing one such observation tree. Fifteen of his camoufleur colleagues were killed during the First World War.Some camoufleurs such as Solomon J. Solomon, aged 54 at the start of the First World War, believed that artistic skill was necessary for the design or construction of effective camouflage. He wrote that \"the camoufleur is, of course, an artist, preferably one who paints or sculpts imaginative subjects... He must leave no clues for the detective on the other side in what he designs or executes, and he must above all things be resourceful. But his imagination and inventiveness should have free play\".Not all the camoufleurs were artists. John Graham Kerr and Hugh Cott were zoologists, though Cott was also a skilled illustrator. Both men believed passionately that effective disruptive camouflage was vital, especially in the face of aerial observation, but they had difficulty persuading authorities such as the British Air Ministry that their approach was the right one. At least one Royal Air Force officer felt that Cott's camouflage was highly effective, but, since it would demand the presence of a skilled artist for every installation, too costly to be practical.".
- Camoufleurs thumbnail Guirand_de_Scevola.jpg?width=300.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageExternalLink 2012ForsythPhD.pdf.
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- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Abbott_Handerson_Thayer.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Adaptive_Coloration_in_Animals.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Alan_Sorrell.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink André_Mare.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Avant-garde.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Basil_Spence.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Kursk.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Brian_Robb.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Camouflage.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Category:20th-century_artists.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Camoufleurs.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lists_of_military_personnel.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_camouflage.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Coventry_Cathedral.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Cubism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Dazzle_camouflage.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Disruptive_coloration.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Bainbridge_Copnall.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Seago.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Wadsworth.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Ernest_Townsend.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Everett_Warner.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Expressionism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Fauvism.
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- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Marc.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Fred_Pusey.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Gore.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Geoffrey_Barkas.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Hugh_B._Cott.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Hugh_Casson.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Impressionism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Ivan_Konev.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Jasper_Maskelyne.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Jean-Louis_Forain.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink John_Codner.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink John_Graham_Kerr.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Julian_Trevelyan.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Leon_Underwood.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Loyd_A._Jones.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Lucien-Victor_Guirand_de_Scévola.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Middle_East_Command_Camouflage_Directorate.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Military_camouflage.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Military_deception.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Neo-romanticism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Norman_Wilkinson_(artist).
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_Messel.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Bertram.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Crusader.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Klee.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Proud.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Scott.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Post-Impressionism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Punch_(magazine).
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Roland_Penrose.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Rolls-Royce_Limited.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Air_Force.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Ship_camouflage.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Siege_of_Tobruk.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Solomon_Joseph_Solomon.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Stained_glass.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Stanley_William_Hayter.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Steven_Sykes_(artist).
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Surrealism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Symbolism_(arts).
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Tony_Ayrton.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Vorticism.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink World_War_I.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink Zoology.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLink File:Guirand_de_Scevola.jpg.
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLinkText "Camoufleurs".
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLinkText "camouflage officer".
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLinkText "camoufleur".
- Camoufleurs wikiPageWikiLinkText "camoufleurs".
- Camoufleurs wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Camouflage.
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- Camoufleurs subject Category:20th-century_artists.
- Camoufleurs subject Category:Camoufleurs.
- Camoufleurs subject Category:Lists_of_military_personnel.
- Camoufleurs subject Category:Military_camouflage.
- Camoufleurs hypernym Person.
- Camoufleurs type Artist.
- Camoufleurs type List.
- Camoufleurs type Person.
- Camoufleurs type Artist.
- Camoufleurs type List.
- Camoufleurs comment "A camoufleur is a person who designed and implemented military camouflage in one of the world wars of the twentieth century. The term was originally a person serving in a First World War French military camouflage unit. In the Second World War, the British camouflage officers of the Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate, led by Geoffrey Barkas in the Western Desert, called themselves camoufleurs, and edited a humorous newsletter called The Fortnightly Fluer.".
- Camoufleurs label "Camoufleurs".
- Camoufleurs sameAs Q11811983.