An exhibition organised by Tate St Ives in collaboration with Leeds Art Gallery and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange.

To mark the occasion of Sir Terry Frost's centenary, this exhibition celebrates the life and work of leading modern painter Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003). This collaborative project between Leeds Art Gallery and Tate St Ives, in consultation with the estate of Terry Frost, brings together a selection of the artist's most significant paintings, collages and sculpture from public and private collections across the UK with key works from Frost's St Ives period and the formative time he spent in Leeds. This exhibition takes a fresh perspective on his practice over six decades and demonstrates his enduring interest in colour, landscape and abstraction.

“Leeds had such a significant influence on my father’s early artistic development, it is the perfect place to launch this exhibition in his centenary year. It will be great to see such a breadth of Dad's work presented here with a fresh new dynamic approach.” Anthony Frost

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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.

  • Landscape

    Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.

  • Sculpture

    A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.