M 17, OCTOBER '62

© Estate of Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.

M 17, OCTOBER '62 1962

Sir Terry Frost (1915 – 2003)

Details

Dimension
183 X 183 CM
Media
OIL ON CANVAS
Accession number
P750

Summary

In the catalogue Six Decades (Royal Academy of Arts, London 2000), Frost described this work as 'a snorter, I am proud of that. This was a deliberate effort on my part to find out for myself what was going on. I think it was the critic of the Daily Mailwho first saw road traffic signs in my painting. You used to see a lot of them in Banbury (near where the artist was living at the time), because lots of people go through it on their way somewhere else. I thought, with this criticism, why don't I do all the signs I have seen on one canvas? So you have everything on there I have ever done.'

 

Glossary

  • Canvas

    A piece of cloth woven from flax, hemp or cotton fibres. The word has generally come to refer to any piece of firm, loosely woven fabric used to paint on. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground.

  • 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.