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What is the Situation?
How Do We Know?
Colors?
Details?
Mood? If you were a tree, how would you feel?
Commentary on Historical Situation?
Moral & Psychological What is this a painting about?
Cosmological & OntologicalWhat is this a painting about spritually, cosmically?
“We are Making a New World”Paul Nash, 1918
Describe Your Journey
Literal Historical Psychological Cosmic
Analysis: what you understand and how you came to understand it.
Finding a Subject
War
Historical
Despair
Psychological
Rebirth
Cosmic
What do you want to write about?
You discovered many facets of this painting.
Choose ONE• Choose one facet • Choose one
subject (each facet may have multiple subjects)
Template for AnalysisSubject: War (or whatever you choose)
In his painting “We are Making a New World,” Paul Nash uses _________(1)_____________ to convey the idea that ______ (subject)______ is _____(2)_____ and _____(2)______, ___________________(3)_________________.
1. Literal elements (images of ruined trees and pitted earth)2. Tone words (see mood notes)
OR3. Thematic statement (what is the epiphany that you had about the
subject as you studied this piece? What does it say about the human condition?)
Template for AnalysisSubject: War (or whatever you choose)
NoviceIn his painting “We are Making a New World,” Paul Nash uses images to convey his ideas about war.
ImprovingIn his painting “We are Making a New World,” Paul Nash uses images of trees and water to convey his conflicting ideas about war.
1. Literal elements 2. Tone words (see mood notes)
OR3. Thematic statement (what is the epiphany that you had about the subject as
you studied this piece? What does it say about the human condition?)
GoodIn his painting “We are Making a New World,” Paul Nash uses images of ruined trees and pitted earth juxtaposed with images of sun and water to convey the idea that war can be simultaneously heartbreaking and hopeful.
BetterIn his painting “We are Making a New World,” Paul Nash uses images of ruined trees and pitted earth juxtaposed with images of sun and water to convey the idea that war [(is) both heartbreaking and hopeful] destroy(s)(ing) our understanding of our world, but makes way for a new paradigm.
1. Literal elements (images of ruined trees and pitted earth)2. Tone words (see mood notes)
OR3) Thematic statement (what is the epiphany that you had about the subject as you studied this
piece? What does it say about the human condition?
Recapture Your Process of Understanding
Showing Your Work in Math Showing Your Process in Science
Transfer to TextLiteral Level
Who is the speaker?
What is the situation?
What is in the text to help us understand possible meanings?
Imagery
Detail
Diction
Point of View (perspective)
Syntax
Beyond the Literal
Tone• How do the elements create
tone?• List some words that capture
possible tones.
Theme• How do the elements create
theme?• What is a universal idea
proposed by these elements?
Imagery
Detail
Diction
Point of View (perspective)
Syntax
Acknowledgements
• Thanks to Lynne Weber of The St. Mark’s School in Dallas, Texas for introducing me to the Paul Nash’s painting and Dante’s 4-fold method of exegesis at APSI 2012, SMU.
• We are Making a New World,1918 (oil on canvas), Paul Nash (1889-1946) / Imperial War Museum, London, UK.