Paul NashReino Unido, 1889–1946The Eclipse of the Sunflower
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Paul Nash often incorporated a sense of mysticism into his painting. Although his starting point might be a natural object or an aspect of the landscape, he developed the symbolic imagery of his subject almost to abstraction. This watercolour, a version of an oil painting of the same title, is one of a series inspired by a poem by William Blake which begins:
Ah, Sunflower! Weary of Time
That countest the steps of the Sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done…
The poem explores the relationship between the summer sun and the flower that turns to follow it, and later compares the Sun to an ideal object of human desire. Nash here uses the black centre of the flower, a mass of dark seeds, to represent the Sun's eclipse.
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- P.19-1962
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