REVIEW
The Paul Nash exhibition is on at the Laing Art Gallery from 9th September 2017 to 14th January 2018. It covers three large rooms of the gallery.
The exhibition includes a range of pieces such as paintings, photographs, sculptures, documents and a video. It has rooms featuring his Landscape art, war paintings, abstract pieces, surrealism and still life, including interior, exterior and architectural art.
When entering the first room of the exhibition, the room is filled with a collection of paintings. This room was called ‘Places’ as all the paintings were about the places that were significant to Nash. These landscape paintings were a response to the memories and feelings he had toward the specific places. In many of these landscape paintings he used symbolic objects instead of figures.
There is a room featuring the Unit One exhibition which includes other artists work, who were part of the Unit One group. These people were mainly surrealist and abstract artists. These works start to show Paul Nash’s transition from abstraction to surrealism art. These included landscape paintings with scenes showing both reality and imaginary. His works at this period also show how he was developing a new method to his landscape paintings, by placing abstract objects into them.
The third room shows paintings, documents and a film. Many of these works represented the World Wars. Nash created a large piece called ‘Battle of Britain’ showing the scene of an aerial battle; using colours and shapes in this landscape it represents the scene making the painting very atmospheric and emotive.
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