WE ARE MAKING A NEW WORLD (final)

Question 1

ARTIST

Answer 1

Nash

Question 2

DATE

Answer 2

1918

Question 3

location

Answer 3

Imperial war museum

Question 4

AMBIGUITY OF TITLE

Answer 4

does the title mock the ambition of the Great War or does it reference the idealism and bravery of the men who went to fight for their country?

Question 5

what aftermath battle does this show

Answer 5

Shows aftermath of the Battle of Passchendaele (also called the Third Battle of Ypres)

This was a key campaign in the Great War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire

Question 6

WHY DID NASH DO LANDSCAPES

Answer 6

His class mates at the Royal Academy were all gifted at drawing and painting the human figure

Nash however really struggled to draw / paint the human figure

He uses the tree as a substitute for human form

Question 7

trees in this work

Answer 7

trees are transformed into metaphors for the men who had suffered and perished in the Battle of Passchendaele

sagging limb-like branches, the tree to the right that looks like a hand

Question 8

composition

Answer 8

A simple horizon line dividing mud from sky and punctuated by staccato forms of broken trees

similar to war photographs from same sight

Question 9

what war photographs can we compare this to

Answer 9

Compare Canadian war photographer William Rider-Rider’s panoramic photographs of Passchendaele

Question 10

how does he depict space

Answer 10

drastically compresses the picture space

cropping enhances proximity

brushwork visable on canvas denies space

colour intense- no spacial recession

makes mounds and lumps mpre ominous

Question 11

how is form treated

Answer 11

abstracted and simplified

distorted and exaggerated

mounds of earth evoke waves

The curvilinear horizontally-oriented forms of the earth contrast with the spiked angular vertically-oriented forms of the trees

Question 12

impactb of blood hue sunset

Answer 12

-evokes death of soldiers

Question 13

effect of sun rays

Answer 13

evoke furturist lines of force

Adds energy to otherwise dead scene

Question 14

how could nash get close to the front line of the war

Answer 14

War artists scheme employed nash

As he worked bullets were flying overhead and shells were landing all around

WAS PREVIOUSLY A SOLDIER BUT SURVIVED A BOMB THAT KILLED THE REST OF HIS QUADRANT

Question 15

INFLUENCE OF VORTICISM

Answer 15

Vorticism was a London-based British artistic and literary movement that lasted from 1914-1915 and aimed to celebrate the dynamism of the modern world

influence:
-Influence of cubism and futurism
-use of futurist lines of force
-geometric fragmentation of cubism
-stripped down and angular
-awareness of darker side of machines
-NO BLURRED CONTOURS

Question 16

colour

Answer 16

complimentary pairing red and green

intense and saturated colour

colour denies spatial recession

sky painted blood red: blood has been spilled

Question 17

AIM

Answer 17

appalled by what he saw on front line and wanted to bring the message home