Telecommunications by Paul Nash (SEB)
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- Synopsis
- This is a Surrealist painting from 1934. This painting was made for the Post Office. They wanted to advertise their new automatic telephone exchanges.The painting consists of an interlocking pattern of many different sized rectangles with several small circles set within the rectangles. Each shape contrasts in colour to the shape next to it, making the colours really stand out particularly the red and black against white, light and dark greys. In the shapes, you can clearly make out a red lectern-style desk (D) with a front lip, very much like a drawing board. On the desk is a white sheet of paper and what looks like a long set square. Across the desk, from top right to bottom left, is a long red cord (1). At the top end of the cord is what appears to be a black plug and is shown just below the frontage of a large piece of black equipment (E1). The bottom end of the cord drops off the desk towards the floor and disappears off the bottom edge of the painting. Two further red cords are shown: one cord (2) coming from the bottom left-hand edge of the desk and curving upwards to the frontage of another large piece of black equipment (E2) and ending in a black plug; and the other cord (3) coming from what looks like a large handset (H) going downwards to join with the cord coming down from the desk at the bottom edge of the painting. The tactile image is nearly two and a half times smaller than the actual painting and follows the shapes as closely as possible with four textures used to represent the colours with white having no texture. The colour and texture palette is shown to the right of the image. The painting has no signature. Key to image: D: lectern-style desk E1: large piece of black equipment E2: large piece of black equipment H: handset 1: cord across desk 2: cord from bottom of desk up to top of large equipment 3: cord from handset and joins with cord 1
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/17
- Copyrighted By:
- RNIB
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Caroline Walker
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.