A Dream World: Ocea Paul Nash
A Dream World
Imagine walking along the dark shale cliffs of the English coast. Down below the waves crash upon the cliffs creating a soothing wish wash of sound. The rays from a sunset cast shadows that stretch out before you. A bird takes flight enjoying the thermals that the days heat has brought. Everything feels perfect. The temperature feels not one degree too hot. The wind whooshes gently and soothingly. The sounds blend together to create a melody of music. The salty smell of the ocean washes away all troubles. One only finds all of this in dreams. Most people have wished for this experience at one point in their lives. Welcome to a Landscape From a Dream.
The large bird standing in the middle of this painting catches the eye first. Two things stand in front of the bird: a mirror and a five section stand-up window. One of the sections stands between the bird and the mirror. In the background, the …show more content…
Circles and squares in the painting seem to have no other purpose than to add some geometry to the picture. Unidentified brown spheres speckled around add some circles to the painting, while a five-section window placed alongside the mirror adds rectangles. All of these random shapes seem to have no purpose at first glance, but when one thinks about it, the painting would needs these geometric figures. Without these shapes, the painting would have empty space that draws a viewer's attention away from the intended portion of the painting. Paul Nash probably needed something to fill in the empty space by the mirror and decided that a little geometry would do the trick. The five-section see-through window has five rectangles and does not take away from the landscape behind it. The unidentified spheres add a little more shape to the reflection and give it more dimensions. Geometry helps balance out the picture without taking away the message that the painting
Imagine walking along the dark shale cliffs of the English coast. Down below the waves crash upon the cliffs creating a soothing wish wash of sound. The rays from a sunset cast shadows that stretch out before you. A bird takes flight enjoying the thermals that the days heat has brought. Everything feels perfect. The temperature feels not one degree too hot. The wind whooshes gently and soothingly. The sounds blend together to create a melody of music. The salty smell of the ocean washes away all troubles. One only finds all of this in dreams. Most people have wished for this experience at one point in their lives. Welcome to a Landscape From a Dream.
The large bird standing in the middle of this painting catches the eye first. Two things stand in front of the bird: a mirror and a five section stand-up window. One of the sections stands between the bird and the mirror. In the background, the …show more content…
Circles and squares in the painting seem to have no other purpose than to add some geometry to the picture. Unidentified brown spheres speckled around add some circles to the painting, while a five-section window placed alongside the mirror adds rectangles. All of these random shapes seem to have no purpose at first glance, but when one thinks about it, the painting would needs these geometric figures. Without these shapes, the painting would have empty space that draws a viewer's attention away from the intended portion of the painting. Paul Nash probably needed something to fill in the empty space by the mirror and decided that a little geometry would do the trick. The five-section see-through window has five rectangles and does not take away from the landscape behind it. The unidentified spheres add a little more shape to the reflection and give it more dimensions. Geometry helps balance out the picture without taking away the message that the painting