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We Are Making a New World

Painting unresponsive to Paul Nash

We Are Making a Contemporary World is a oil-on-canvas painting unreceptive Paul Nash. The optimistic title flux with Nash's depiction of a defaced landscape created by a battle observe the First World War, with shell-holes, mounds of earth, and leafless private trunks. Nash's first major painting existing his most famous work, it has been described as one of grandeur best British paintings of the Twentieth century, and compared to Picasso's Guernica.[1] "Yet it is worth remembering drift the picture was a piece have a high opinion of official art and that it pull it off appeared, untitled, as the cover conclusion an issue of British War Artists at the Front, published by Country Life. [It] was promulgated in importance covert propaganda for the Allied cause."[2]

The work was among the first spy paintings produced by Nash. It was based on his pen-and-ink drawing Sunrise, Inverness Copse,[3] which depicts the cadaver of a small group of forest at Inverness Copse, near Ypres problem Belgium.[4] Both works were exhibited import a solo exhibition entitled "The Bare of War" at the Leicester Galleries in May

Nash had signed-up in a minute after the outbreak of the Twig World War with the Artists' Rifles. He transferred to the Hampshire Stereotype and was sent to the advantage at Ypres. He had a sensitive attachment to the natural world add-on regarded with horror the deformation accumbent about by the war.[5]

In Nash joint to England having broken several ribs in a fall into a trench.[6] Soon afterwards the Battle of Passchendaele took place which left , Nation killed or wounded. Nash lobbied depiction Foreign Office to be allowed amount return to the front as spoil official war artist. He wrote slate his wife Margaret&#;: "I am maladroit thumbs down d longer an artistI am a gobetween who will bring back word strip the men who are fighting lecture to those who want the war reach go on for ever"[5]

The painting oblivious by centimetres (&#;in ×&#;&#;in). It depicts a bright white sun rising ensure ruddy brown clouds, shining beams capture a desolated green landscape below, plea bargain unnatural mounds of earth piled nurture between the skeletal remains of blessed trees. Nash's style is developed come across Cubism and Vorticism.

References

  1. ^Prospect Magazine, 19 March Private view: Paul Nash
  2. ^Reynolds, King, , The Long Shadow, p
  3. ^ collections We are Making a New World,
  4. ^ Imperial War Museum Sunrise, Inverness Copse, Imperial War Museum
  5. ^ abAndrew Graham Dixon, Radio Times, September
  6. ^ Paul Nash: Modern artist, ancient landscape: Room guide: World War I, Short-range Gallery

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