Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland's appointment by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in June 1940 to record the devastation of the London Blitz marked a subtle change in his art. The outbreak of war had found him, in a state of great mental bewilderment . In his early, uncommissioned works made at the urgings of his friend Kenneth Clark, then director of the National Gallery, Sutherland freely explored his own emotional response to the war. As the treat of the German War Machine deepened during 1939 an intense air of foreboding manifested itself in Sutherland's paintings. Black Landscape (1939-40, Tate Gallery), for example, has a deep sense of volcanic unrest about it, as if the Welsh hills it depicts are about to spit forth fire.
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