British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house May 20, 2008
More than 200 masterpieces of British surrealism, including works by Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Damien Hirst and Glen Baxter, as well as several continental surrealists such as Ren; Magritte, were trucked at the weekend from a home in a Leeds suburb, which will be partially recreated in the exhibition at Mima, the new 14. 2m Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Before all the shouting started May 11, 2008
The most lyrically beautiful works here, though, belong, perhaps unsurprisingly, to Paul Nash and Edward Burra, each, in their ways, quintessentially English artists. Burra's Winter, 1964 is quite startling in its otherworldliness, as is an atypical William Scott painting from 1953, Slagheap Landscape, which, despite its title, is a thing of strange tonal beauty. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Glad to be grey Apr 23, 2008
There is, I think, a uniquely British thread of hushed romanticism in the paintings of Elinor Bellingham-Smith, Paul Nash, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Alan Reynolds and Leonard Rosoman. They know how to make a virtue of grey, as only a Briton can. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Art of War Jan 27, 2008
That same collision is central to Pat Barker s new novel, Life Class, which follows a group of British artists loosely based on gifted figures like Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson and Dora Carrington from the comfortable confines of the Slade School of Fine Art in London to the carnage of the Western Front. Edel Rodriguez. (New York Times)
London Transport design Nov 19, 2007
Even the fabric on the train seats was the work of artists, like Paul Nash and Enid Marx. Thanks to Pick, the system was run so smoothly, that the results were efficient as well as inspiring. (International Herald Tribune)
Paul Nash and Yves Tanguy Jul 9, 2007
Paul Nash (1889-1946) was a 20th-century English landscape painter, Surrealist, and war artist. At the outset of World War I, Nash used his front-line sketches to make a series of drawings of the war. (Suite101.com)
Turner comes up trumps for Tate Britain Feb 21, 2006
Highlights included: Works by John Constable, JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Paul Nash and Philip Wilson Steer, above. The exhibition showed 250 paintings in total. (The Independent, UK)
