Essay On The Elements Of We Are Making A New World By Paul Nash

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The Elements (We Are Making a New World)
By Paul Nash (1918)
Grow up in the era of World War I and having a talent to be a painter, had made him served in the land of war, not only as one of the British army at the Tower of London, but Nash also became an official war artist for the British government in 1917. Interestingly this was the first painting that he completed once he went into the battlefield. He was interested with the nature elements such as fire, air, earth and water, which if we observe from this picture he put all the elements together for example the trees, the water at the bottom of the painting and also the fire that already gone after the …show more content…

Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. (Iwmorguk, 2017) In the “We Are Making a New World” paintings, Nash try to describe about the situation, what happened during the World War I, but the title itself show what human did when they were expected to make a better world, but what they do with the nature is not make it any better but destroyed the earth itself. In that painting the artist actually symbolised the death tree as the human in the real life in the middle of a mess environment. Which later on the tree will start to grow again the land will recover as what human will rise again after the mess situation. The sun in here figured as an object that brings the human back to life. Paul Nash also said that he is a messenger who will bring back the message from the army who fighting in the battlefield to the people who want the war to last forever. In here he brought the message by figure it inside his art. After he came back home he had a nervous breakdown, meanwhile this painting become one of the best artwork during the World War and Paul Nash continue with his other landscape painting by using method angular avant-garde styles of Cubism and Vorticism. From his paintings he expressed life through the transformation of the nature. The “We Are Making a New World” painting is exhibited in Imperial War Museum in London in purpose to tell the experience in World War I to the modern …show more content…

Turner threw a lot of stories containing into this painting. Firstly, he was sketches of Victory then added a ship from the Admiralty on to the painted that he was able to combine a number of incidents from different times in the action. As the paintings contain “as many thunderclouds”, where Turner represents the uncontrollability of the ship’s sails in the storm. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12057.html Along the right hand side of the paintings, which painted with the ship of French ‘Redoutable’, where it’s currently sinking under the storm after the battle. Through the smoke of battle the hull, sails, cannon and rigging of Nelson’s great flagship Victory loom up in front of us, its sheer scale dwarfing everything below it. In the foreground English sailors rowing around the periphery of the battle to rescue survivors cheer Nelson’s victory. Turner made the paintings against strength, independence and energy he juxtaposes lassitude, subjugation and corruption.

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