Paul Nash - Tate Britain

This comprehensive retrospective of the great figure in British Modernism, Paul Nash, underlines his significance as a pioneer of the avant-garde.
Nash had a life-long love of the British countryside, by which he was transfixed and with which he felt a powerful mystical connection. This he combined with the influences from European art of surrealism, abstraction, cubism and found objects to create sensitive transformations of reality.
The paintings Nash produced as an official war artist in both world wars are amongst his most well-known and evocative. Here nature is no longer alive, but annhiliated by the madness of men in iconic, unflinching and shocking images which record the horror of war.
Tate Britain's superb survey proves Nash's art to be both personal and patriotic, yet modern and international.
Paul Nash at Tate Britain until 5th March 2017