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Pillar and Moon

Paul Nash

Pillar and Moon

Paul Nash
  • Date: 1932 - 1942
  • Style: Expressionism, Surrealism
  • Genre: landscape
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Dimensions: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
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Paul Nash was deeply affected by his experiences as a soldier and an artist during the First World War. This picture was based around ‘the mystical association of two objects which inhabit different elements and have no apparent relationin life... The pale stone sphere on top of a ruined pillar faces its counterpart the moon, cold and pale and solid as stone.’Though not explicitly about mourning, the deep, unpopulated space and ghostly lighting gives the scene a melancholy air. Rather than depict a real landscape, Nash said that his intention had been ‘to call up memories and stir emotions in the spectator’.

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