Victor Pasmore
... An artist now has to create his own discipline; he has to find his own temperament. The thing that makes an original work of art is irrational and automatic and spontaneous. That's what makes a picture creative. That's why art schools can teach nothing.
Victor Pasmore via The Sunday Times, 1985
Victor Pasmore (1908–1998, United Kingdom) was a leading figure in the promotion of abstract art. After many years of painting realistically, he pivoted to an entirely new direction, a change which couldn’t possibly be any more dramatic: his early work consisted of landscapes in the tradition of Whistler and Turner while his later work developed into collages, constructions and paintings of the purest abstraction. Pasmore surprised his spectators. Throughout his career he worked in a variety of styles, eventually leading to a revival of constructivism.
