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Victor Pasmore
(1908-1998)
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John Victor Pasmore was born in 1908 in Chelsham, Surrey.
From abstraction to figuration and back again, Pasmore's work
can be seen as organic, chromatic, romantic, expressive and
geometric.
Pasmore began his education in 1923 at Harrow, where he
studied traditional academic painting. In 1927, he attended
the Central School of Art; soon after graduation the artist
was elected to the London Artist' Association. At this point,
Pasmore was painting in a highly colored fauvist style, mostly
executed as still lifes. In 1923 he joined the London Group,
where he became interested in abstraction and exhibited at
the Objective Abstraction Exhibition. Soon afterwards, however,
Pasmore returned to representational art, resuming work with
living models.
In 1937, along with the artists Coldstream and Rogers, Pasmore
developed the Euston Road School, where he became a full time
painting instructor. During his period at the school, he painted
a series of landscapes on the banks of the Thames, all of
which were executed in tempered tones. By the 1950's, Pasmore's
work had departed from high representation and was becoming
increasingly geometric. With the influence of the artist Ben
Nicholson, Pasmore began to create black and white constructivist
pieces using wood and Perspex. At this time, the artist drew
inspiration from such artists as Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian.
After a visit to Malta in the sixties, chromatic value became
a priority in Pasmore's work. When the Euston Road School
dissolved, the artist began teaching in 1943 at the Camberwell
School of Art and at the Central School of Art. Pasmore is
credited with having introduced the Bauhaus teaching method
into English art education.
After World War Two, Pasmore executed a series of post war
abstract relief paintings and sculptures along with fellow
artists Kenneth Martin and Robert Adams. In 1955 he became
the Master of Painting at King's College, Newcastle; he held
this position until relocating to the University of Newcastle
upon Tyne, where he held a position as the Director of Painting
in the institution's department of Art. Pasmore moved to Malta
in 1966, where he continued to work until his death in 1998.
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