WEST CORNWALL IN THE LANDSCAPE ABSTRACTION OF THE ST IVES SCHOOL

Abstract

The article is devoted to the British abstract painting of the St Ives School, which is world-famous but uninvestigated in Russia. The St Ives School taken its name from a little fishing town was formed in the South-West of England in the 1940 – 1950s. An object for study is a peculiarity of the abstract painting of the St. Ives School, its concreteness. For the first time the article researches a perception of a special place, where a centre of the abstract painting appeared, that was distinctive for British artists after the World War II. An image of West Cornwall is investigated in abstract landscapes of Bryan Wynter (1915 – 1975), Peter Lanyon (1918 – 1964), Roger Hilton (1911 – 1975) and Terry Frost (1915 – 2003). Methods of research include a detailed figuratively-stylistic and a comparative analysis of works and collation with its natural sources – landscapes of Cornwall. The article first studies images of Zennor and Newlyn, two famous places on the Atlantic coast, in the British abstract painting of the St Ives School.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2014-2-15

Keywords

• Peter Lanyon
• Bryan Wynter
• Roger Hilton
• Terry Frost
• the St. Ives School
• British abstract painting
• British painting
• Cornwall
• Zennor
• Newlyn