Over the last couple of weeks we have been studying the Official War Artist-Paul Nash.
Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, collage artist, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art.
During WW1 and WW2, Nash was commissioned to create paintings and drawings-some which were used on propaganda posters and leaflets and others to represent the catastrophe of war.
After studying a series of Nash’s most famous paintings, we created our own collage, using paper, magazine cuttings and newspaper cuttings, that depicted our impression of WW2 in the surrealist style of Paul Nash. Have a look at our creations below:
