Landscape from a dream

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Tate Gallery, London (the UK).

Briefly about the painting:

This work, according to art historians, marks the culmination of Paul Nash’s personal surrealism. From the title it follows that the artist echoes the Surrealists’ passion for the theories of Freud about the power of dreams, revealing the unconscious to people. The author explained that the various elements are used as symbols in this work. The hawk belongs to the material world, and the spheres reflected in the mirror refer to the state of the soul. Nash depicted the surrealistic scene on the Dorset coast, finding that there is something supernatural in the English landscape of those places.