Abstract

© Estate of Victor Pasmore. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.

ABSTRACT 1948

Victor Pasmore (1908 – 1998)

Details

Dimension
68.5 x 49 CM
Media
LITHOGRAPH
Accession number
P656

Summary

This print comes from the same year (1948) that Pasmore moved to pure abstraction in his art, and as with the first abstract painting is made up of rotating squares and circles. It was used as the poster design for the London Group exhibition of May 1948 which was the first time Pasmore had shown his abstract work. The print was shown later that same year in the first exhibition of the Society of London Painter-Printers at the Redfern Gallery.

Out of Print British Printmaking 1946-1976, The British Council 1994

 

Glossary

  • Abstraction

    To abstract means to remove, and in the art sense it means that artist has removed or withheld references to an object, landscape or figure to produce a simplified or schematic work. This method of creating art has led to many critical theories; some theorists considered this the purest form of art: art for art’s sake. Unconcerned as it is with materiality, abstraction is often considered as representing the spiritual.

  • Design

    The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.