Norman Wilkinson (artist)
Norman Wilkinson CBE aka Norman L. Wilkinson (24 November 1878 – 31 May 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolors and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but he was also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson developed and led the use of a widely used disruptive coloration in naval camouflage, for which he coined the well-known term "dazzle painting" or dazzle camouflage.
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