Exhibition

St Ives Artists from The Clive Beardsmore Gift

2 May 2015 – 23 Aug 2015

Event times

Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm; Sundays 12noon - 4pm. Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays.

Cost of entry

Free

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The New Art Gallery Walsall

Walsall, United Kingdom

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This in-focus exhibition from The Clive Beardsmore Gift looks at a body of work by artists associated with the Cornish harbour town of St Ives.

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Following the Second World War St Ives had become home to to a wide range of leading abstract artists, who had sought quiet refuge from the atrocities happening across Europe, and inspiration away from the hectic pace of London.

Although many of the Modern British Artists rejected total abstraction following the war and returned to more figurative work, St Ives Artists embraced the abstract values of Modernism and applied it to an appreciation of the landscape of Cornwall. St Ives to this day continues to have a unqiue appeal for artists attracted by the quality of light and the dramatic coastline.

 

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