Victor Pasmore
Linear Motif in Black and White
About this artwork
Pasmore visited Ben Nicholson in St Ives in 1950, and soon afterwards followed Nicholson's example in making relief paintings. These reliefs relate to his work with architects and town-planners (he was a consultant architectural designer for the new town of Peterlee from 1955-77). Here, Pasmore takes painting into real, three-dimensional space and conceives the frame - and the space beyond it - as an integral part of the work.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998) English
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title:Linear Motif in Black and White
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date created:1960 - 1961
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materials:Oil and incised lines on boxed wood relief
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measurements:124.50 x 124.50 x 5.00 cm; Framed: 130.70 x 130.80 x 8.00 cm / 24.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased (Knapping Fund) 1963
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accession number:GMA 834
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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...
