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PAUL NASH - Coggle Diagram
PAUL NASH
"The Menin Road" (1919)
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the first impact is the absence of soldiers/ people, but if we focus on the middle ground, we can see 2 tiny soldiers (in the very center of the painting) who are running, probably looking for a friend or escaping from something
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in the very foreground I can see an upside down helmet, flooting on the water
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in the background I can see clouds of gas/ smoke and bumbing, some artificial lights that were used to lighten up the areas to be bombed or attacked
the NATURAL ELEMENTS are: pools, burned trees, clouds, lights, herbs
none of them is any longer natural: pools have been created by bombing, the herbs and trees are burned, clouds and light are artificial
despite the title, there are no roads visible at all
the important message he wanted to convey to us is that not only humans, but nature too suffers from war
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LIFE
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painter, illustrator, critic
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INFLUENCES FROM BLAKE
the focus on some simbolic elements: helmet is a visual methonimy of the death of a soldier, the violence of war
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