Journal #4:Image by Paul Nash

View the image, then respond to the questions on your new journal document, which will be submitted to a shared Google folder later.

Paul Nash served in WWI and became a war artist in both world wars before suffering nervous breakdown. This oil painting was completed at the end of the war (1918).

What do you see / notice?

What questions does this work spark?

Nash named this "We Are Making a New World".

How might the title change your interpretation? Would you have titled it differently? Explain.

This art historian suggests that the artist was perhaps NOT being sarcastic / ironic and instead of referring to humans "making a new world" through war, that perhaps it's nature talking ....that nature will ultimately triumph over man's destruction.

Do you agree? Explain.