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Paul Nash: The Elements
Opens: 10/02/2010 Closes: 09/05/2010
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
You can't blame Nash for his obsession with mortality given that he acted as a state artist in both world wars. Through a number of paintings and a collection of striking and surreal preparatory photographs, this show provides a comprehensive view of Nash's haunting modernist vision.
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The Telegraph“Once seen, a painting by Nash is not easily forgotten...” The first London exhibition of Nash's work since 1975 presents the artist as a visionary British eccentric in the tradition of Blake. A painting is at once timeless and unmistakably of its time: the artist conjured a rough-hewn, druidic magic...
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Guardian“Dulwich champions him with a passion that warms the heart...” Nash has always been an artist worthy of respect. Here he is rediscovered as one worthy of love. Right from the start, you're in a distinctive, painted world that is part William Blake, part JRR Tolkien and all England...
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Financial Times“Unquiet landscapes of the mind...” Dulwich’s approach pinpoints Nash’s very British art of compromise, between an Anglo-centric narrative and mystical strand, redolent of the romantic sublime of Samuel Palmer and Willam Blake, and an openness to continental innovation...
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The Independent“The work is so spellbinding...” When Nash's work is at strength, it's as if another and quite alien world had intersected with this one; as if the hills etc had been taken away and then returned, subtly changed...
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Time Out“One of our greatest landscape painters...” The first room is a knockout, perhaps slightly taking the wind out of the remaining galleries. There are strange interior/exterior views showing the ceiling as sky, the walls as forest and the floor as sea...
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