Summary Of Existence By Paul Nash

The paint “Existence” by Paul Nash was created in 1917. “Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, 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” (“Paul Nash (artist),” 2016). Most of his artwork are inspired in World War I. The painting “Existence” Has very bright and striking colors like yellow, green, coffee, black, blue, gray, red and white. In the painting there are uniformed soldiers holding weapons. They appear to be in trenches that were built with the rubbles. Around the soldiers there are mountains, some trees with leaves and others destroyed by the bombs. There is a lot of destruction around the soldiers and also mountains of sands. The sky is clear and blue. The sky make contrasts with the look of sadness and despair of the soldiers.
“On 10 September 1914, shortly after the start of World War I, Nash reluctantly enlisted as a private for home service in the Second Battalion, the Artists' Rifles, part of the 28th London Regiment of Territorials. Nash's duties, which included guard duty at the Tower of London, allowed him time to continue drawing and painting” (“Paul Nash (artist),” 2016). While Nash was on duty h e“fell into a trench, broke a rib and, by 1 June, had been invalided back to London. A few days later the majority of his former unit were killed in an assault on a position known as Hill 60” (“Paul Nash (artist),” 2016). After he was sent to his home in London, he was declared as an official war artist. He had to make war sketcher for his paintings. Paul Nash's landscape portrayed terrible devastating scenes from World War I. The paintings are very realistic because they express the horror of the