Victor Pasmore Paintings and Constructions Exhibition Poster
About this artwork
This poster for the 1948 London Group exhibition presented a clear-cut, lively challenge to the prevailing nostalgic Neo-romanticism and stodgy realism of most contemporary British art. Its composition is not abstracted from a natural scene but built up from invented forms arranged on the golden section. In the catalogue to this exhibition Pasmore and Elliott Seabrooke, the outgoing president, stated: “Today the Group is the only large Society of Painters and Sculptures fully conscious of, and sympathetic with, the development of Modern Art.” This was the opening salvo in Pasmore’s battle to bring British art abreast of Continental modernism.
Updated before 2020
-
artist:Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998) English
-
title:Victor Pasmore Paintings and Constructions Exhibition Poster
-
date created:1991
-
materials:Colour reproduction on paper
-
measurements:75.70 x 50.70 cm
-
object type:
-
credit line:Presented by Eduardo Paolozzi
-
accession number:GMA.A.40.6/30
-
gallery:
Victor Pasmore
Victor Pasmore
Although largely self-taught as an artist, Pasmore was a key figure in British art. He exhibited with the London Group from 1931 and it was around then that he first flirted with abstraction. Yet he swiftly destroyed his early experimentations and instead gained recognition as a naturalistic...