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Victor Pasmore

Born – Warlingham, Surrey, England 1908

Died – England 1997

While employed in clerical work during the day, Victor Pasmore studied art in the evening at St Martin’s School of Art, London, “painting cubist pastiche”. In 1932, he joined the London Artists’ Association, run by the Bloomsbury Group, and was elected to the avant-garde London Group. Through this he made contact with artists William Coldstream and Claude Rogers. Together, they formed the Euston Road School in 1937. In 1938, Kenneth Clark became his patron. Throughout the 1940s, Pasmore worked in a naturalistic way, producing sensitive portraits and atmospheric landscapes. However, toward the end of the decade he moved to an abstract mode of expression, influenced by his contemporaries and inspired, not by Picassos’ art, but by his spirit of artistic independence. Pasmore began reformulating the idea of “basic form” as used by the Bauhaus. With Richard Hamilton at Newcastle University, he developed a radical way of teaching art, known as Basic Design. Pasmore painted Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Island Sea around the time that he was in St Ives, Cornwall. “The Inland Sea”, however, refers, “the coast if subconscious experience”, revealing Pasmore’s confidence in abstraction as “a modern romanticism.”

Masterpieces:

• The Park
• The Snowstorm (Spiral Motif in Black and White)

Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.

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