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发帖数: 7349 | 1 But Nash’s greatest WWI painting, and, at 6ft (1.8m) across, his most
monumental, is the utterly arresting
The Menin Road (1919). This time, unusually, we find the barely discernable
figures of four soldiers attempting to move across the unforgiving, shell-
shattered terrain.
The painting’s dramatic diagonals and verticals show how Nash had adopted
the hard intersecting planes of the English avant-garde Vorticist group.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information for a Hall of Remembrance that
was never built, the painting was intended to celebrate the national ideals
of heroism and sacrifice.
This complex work is, perhaps deliberately, ambivalent on that front. But it
does nonetheless express a kind of doomed magnificence. |
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