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“[…] whereas in representational art the spectator is confined to a point which is always at a distance from the object, in abstract form he must handle, feel, move around and get into the work if he is to apprehend fully the intentions of the artist.” It was the plumb-line method of measuring that most interested Victor Pasmore during his years as a founder member of the Euston Road School of Painting (1937–1939). Rather than the social conscience that preoccupied his fellow teacher at the school William Coldstream – art, Pasmore thought, needed to be entirely independent – it was the idea of objective standards in painting appealed to him. Nothing, perhaps, could be more objective, scientific and difficult to argue with than a vertical line made by gravity pulling a piece of string straight.
Title
Linear Motif
Date
1962–1965
Medium
oil & gravure on board
Measurements
H 152 x W 152 cm
Accession number
P2170
Acquisition method
purchased from Waddington Galleries, 1976
Work type
Painting