Paul Nash was born on May 11, 1889 in London, England, and died July 11, 1946 in Boscombe, Hampshire. He was a British painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of art. Nash was one of the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Nash grew up in Buckinghamshire where he developed a love of the landscape. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 1914 he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles to serve in World War I.

We Are Making a New World by Paul Nash is a 1918 oil-on-canvas painting. It is the description of a scarred landscape created by the First World War, with shell-holes, mounds of earth, and leafless tree trunks.

I think the artist felt sad about the war because the painting gives an unhappy feeling to the viewers because it’s dark and gloomy.

The piece of art makes me feel like the war was a hard time for everyone, and I think it is an accurate portrait what the war was like because many people died, and it was filled with pain, loss, grief and sadness.