This term in Art, we have been learning about the life and work of Paul Nash, an official War Artist in both World Wars I and II.
Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter, as well as a photographer, collage artist, writer and designer. He was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. During WW1 and WW2, Paul 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.
We have looked closely at a series of Nash’s most famous World War II paintings:
Bomber in the Corn (1940)
Dead Sea (1940-41)
Battle of Germany (1944)
We talked about the artistic style, techniques and media used in the various paintings, as well as reflecting on the images and the feelings we felt that Paul Nash was trying to invoke with his art. We also imitated his style using sketching pencils and water colours.
Today, inspired by the painting ‘The Battle Of Germany’, we had the chance to innovate Paul Nash’s work, using oil paints to create our own impression of WW2.
Which is your favourite of the three paintings by Paul Nash? Why?
I really enjoyed to paint those pictures 🌄!
It was very fun to use your own inspirations and to choose the right colours from oil paints 🙂
I really liked the drawing made by Paul Nash (Dead sea 1940-41)🧸
I liked it because Paul Nash decided to use broken plains as mountains ⛰️
To show how terrible and heart breaking 💔
The WW2 was😔…..
It was so interesting learning about Paul Nash, he was a surrealist painter during WW1 AND WW2. We got to do our own innovation of one of his painting called ‘the battle of Germany’.
I really enjoyed making these pictures!! I love using oil paints! They are actually my favourite kind of paint!!! This was so fun, so I hope to do something like this again!!!!
I really enjoyed to paint those pictures 🌄!
It was very fun to use your own inspirations and to choose the right colours from oil paints 🙂
I really liked the drawing made by Paul Nash (Dead sea 1940-41)🧸
I liked it because Paul Nash decided to use broken plains as mountains ⛰️
To show how terrible and heart breaking 💔
The WW2 was😔…..
i loved painting this picture yeah fun=)
That was very messy. Still fun though.
It was so interesting learning about Paul Nash, he was a surrealist painter during WW1 AND WW2. We got to do our own innovation of one of his painting called ‘the battle of Germany’.
I love his artwork! It is very interesting!
Thank you it was so fun.
I loved it! It was great.
I really enjoyed making these pictures!! I love using oil paints! They are actually my favourite kind of paint!!! This was so fun, so I hope to do something like this again!!!!
i loved this art lesson i really enjoyed colouring with oil paints even know they didn’t come off easily!
the art was was good but the paint was quite sticky and impossible to take of luckilly we managed
I found it really hard to draw all those pictures! But it was really fun!
It was really really fun. I loved it.
It was fun.
I loved it ! It was great fun and a great activity
I loved this lesson because it helped me to express my artistic side as we imitated Paul Nashes art.
I enjoyed painting.
It was great ,I loved getting to draw your own painting inspired by Paul Nash .It was really fun .
it was so fun and a bit messy
I loved it but it was really hard.
Is so so so so so hard to draw it!
It was really interesting when we were painting it and I really enjoyed it.
My hands looked like shrek after.