The Dead Sea

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

Briefly about the painting:

Nash’s paintings fully reflect the tragedy of generations, as his youth coincided with the First World War, and the last years of his life coincided with the Second World War. Nash himself was a participant in both wars; he saw thousands of dead; his life was in danger more than once. He started working on this painting after creating a series of pictures of the cemetery of German aircrafts. The work, originally called “The Iron Sea”, depicts the forever soothing insane element under the transparent night sky, which broke thousands of lives. Piles of deadly metal penetrated by lunar lifeless rays seem like a terrible mirage that even the sunrise cannot dispel.