Paul Nash. The Menin Road, 1919.
WW1 changed everything forever, and part of everything was art. This may not be the battlefield scene the British War Memorial Committee envisioned memorializing in s...
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I find a certain Dali quality to it.
One of my theories is that large wars, and other hard times, produce significant amounts of pressure in a society. That pressure has to be released somehow, two of the ways it's released are in the form of large changes and new or evolved artforms. I have no doubt the wars in Ukraine and Iran, since they're so far-stretching and we now live in a global society, will result in global changes, overall and in art.
I find a certain Dali quality to it.
One of my theories is that large wars, and other hard times, produce significant amounts of pressure in a society. That pressure has to be released somehow, two of the ways it's released are in the form of large changes and new or evolved artforms. I have no doubt the wars in Ukraine and Iran, since they're so far-stretching and we now live in a global society, will result in global changes, overall and in art.