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22/7/2003

Paul Nash

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) is considered one of the most distinguished British painters of the twentieth century and the most important landscape artist of his time.

Landscape always remained Nash's main preoccupation, from the war-ravaged fields around the First World War trenches to his transcendent and symbolic depictions of the English countryside towards the end of his life.

Tate Liverpool will offer the first major survey of Nash's career in Britain since 1989. The exhibition will focus on Nash's life-long preoccupation with nature and landscape and will consider these themes in the light of debates about national sensibility or 'Englishness' during the inter-war period. The exhibition will chart the artist's career, starting with early works influenced by English Romantic artists such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through the dramatic First World War canvases, to the near-abstract works painted in response to developments in European modernism.

The exhibition will look at Nash's key role in the development of modernism in Britain both as an artist, critic and founding member of Unit One. The influence of Surrealism provided a new direction for Nash's work from the mid-1930s, provoking his interest in the mystical and imaginative force of the landscape. The exhibition will culminate with a focus on these powerful late land and sky-scapes painted during the Second World War.

This exhibition will draw for the first time on Tate's extensive holdings of Nash's archive, showing a selection of the artist's substantial photographic output, as well as supporting documentary material.

Admission £4, concessions £3

Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock L3 4BB
Liverpool

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