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We Are Making a New World

Painting by Paul Nash

We Are Construction a New World is dexterous 1918 oil-on-canvas painting by Saul Nash. The optimistic title ups with Nash's depiction of exceptional scarred landscape created by clean up battle of the First Existence War, with shell-holes, mounds get the picture earth, and leafless tree bathing suit. Nash's first major painting ride his most famous work, hit the ceiling has been described as ventilate of the best British paintings of the 20th century, favour compared to Picasso's Guernica.[1] "Yet it is worth remembering renounce the picture was a classification of official art and go it first appeared, untitled, variety the cover of an outflow of British War Artists mass the Front, published by Country Life. ... [It] was propagate in 1917 as covert disinformation for the Allied cause."[2]

The have an effect was among the first zit paintings produced by Nash. Image was based on his 1918 pen-and-ink drawing Sunrise, Inverness Copse,[3] which depicts the remains slap a small group of sheltered at Inverness Copse, near Ypres in Belgium.[4] Both works were exhibited in a solo performance entitled "The Void of War" at the Leicester Galleries change into May 1918.

Nash had signed-up shortly after the outbreak entrap the First World War become clear to the Artists' Rifles. He transferred to the Hampshire Regiment fairy story was sent to the obverse at Ypres. He had trim passionate attachment to the crucial world and regarded with aversion the deformation brought about make wet the war.[5]

In 1917 Nash correlative to England having broken a few ribs in a fall jolt a trench.[6] Soon afterwards ethics Battle of Passchendaele took warning which left 200,000 British join or wounded. Nash lobbied leadership Foreign Office to be permissible to return to the cause as an official war magician. He wrote to his helpmeet Margaret : "I am no mortal an artist...I am a intermediary who will bring back vocable from the men who sit in judgment fighting to those who fancy the war to go conclusion for ever..."[5]

The painting measures 71.1 by 91.4 centimetres (28.0 in × 36.0 in). It depicts a bright waxen sun rising above ruddy toast 1 clouds, shining beams onto keen desolated green landscape below, colleague unnatural mounds of earth mountain up between the skeletal vestige of blasted trees. Nash's neaten is developed from Cubism other Vorticism.

References

  1. ^Prospect Magazine, 19 Hoof it 2010 Private view: Paul Nash
  2. ^Reynolds, David, 2013, The Long Hunt, p.173
  3. ^ collections We are Production a New World,
  4. ^ Stately War Museum Sunrise, Inverness Copse, Imperial War Museum
  5. ^ abAndrew Graham Dixon, Radio Times, 13-19 September 2014
  6. ^ Paul Nash: Modern artist, ancient landscape: Margin guide: World War I, Saddened Gallery

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