Paul Nash - Tate Britain

1889-1946
pantheistic
Slade

Influence of Blake
Redon - Symbolisme

Wittenham Clumps
13
watercolour ink chalk

We are making a new world 18
from the ashes of destruction...
blown back to prehistory

the menin road
Nature still triumphs

after the battle
18
waterc & ink
Munch

ypres salient at night
18
whistler - palette
nativity - star(burst)

landscape always eclipses figures in these works

Ardizzone

wood on the downs 29/30
saw de chirico in 28 - key influence - uninhabited surreality
ben nicholson palette - mushroom & grey

night tide 22 ink wc
vorticists

winter sea 25-37
full abstraction

the shore 23 leeds
perfect balance of abstract & figurative

nostalgic ls 23-38
ernst
devereux

surrealism
cubism

he has Nature as his core - his whole oeuvre revolves around landscape

Unit One 33-35
exhib touring 34/5 mayor 4/34
edited Herbert Read
Hepworth Nicholson Moore Burra Wadsworth

Tristram Hillier
pylons 33

Wadsworth
dux et comes 1 32
organic abstract forms cf moore

b nicholson
1933 milk & plain choc
scraping/etching powerful
great abstract sense - sculptural
scultpure + collage
Picasso

surrealist objects & poems exhib London Gal 37

eileen agar
ladybird 36
nude in seethru cape

ernst exhib mayor 6/33

forest 36/7
wood
glove stretchers

wood on the hill 37
sculpture transposed to painting

only egg 36/7
box backed by photo
cornell
"boxed assemblage" = surrealism

found objects

landscapes with large foreground object cf okeefe

int surrealist exhib London 6/36 burlington gals

nash V okeefe

equivalents for the megaliths 35 tate
ernst
magritte

ls fr a dream
36/8 tate
magritte
okeefe

battle of ger 44 iwm
bold palette
epic cf John Martin
perfect balance fig & abs

totesmeer 40/1 tate
tate book before school
perfect blend of ls & surr

ls of the briwn fungus 43
spare, stripped down
distinctive palette
clump cf tomb trees h heath Adam Z last wk

pillar & moon 32-42
ls & architdcture

ls of the moons last phase
44 liverpool walker
clumps
rouuseau

equinox = equal day & night

ls of the vernal equinox 43 *
looser command
deeply surrealist