Battle of Britain by Paul Nash

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Battle of Britain by Paul Nash

Battle of Britain
1941
Surrealism
Oil on canvas
Imperial War Museums, UK

Nash painted ‘Battle of Britain’ during the battle itself capturing the parched countryside and the trails of airplanes in the sky, both those still flying and those falling and burning. The Luftwaffe is shown advancing in formation whilst RAF aircraft break up these forces in the centre of the painting.

Paul Nash 1889-1946

Paul Nash
Surrealism
Born: 11 May 1889, London, England
Nationality: British
Died: 11 July 1946, Bournemouth, England

Nash was a surrealist painter, war artist, photographer, writer, and designer of applied art. Among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the 20th century, Nash played an important role in the evolution of Modernism in English art

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