1. Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE was a British artist.
14 Facts About Victor Pasmore
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Victor Pasmore pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Victor Pasmore studied at Summer Fields School in Oxford and Harrow in west London, but with the death of his father in 1927 he was forced to take an administrative job at the London County Council.
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Victor Pasmore studied painting part-time at the Central School of Art and was associated with the formation of the Euston Road School.
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Victor Pasmore refused orders and was court martialled and sentenced to 123 days imprisonment.
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In 1950, he was commissioned to design an abstract mural for a bus depot in Kingston upon Thames and the following year Victor Pasmore contributed a mural to the Festival of Britain that promoted a number of the British Constructivists.
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Victor Pasmore was a supporter of fellow artist Richard Hamilton, giving him a teaching job in Newcastle and contributing a constructivist structure to the exhibition This Is Tomorrow in collaboration with Erno Goldfinger and Helen Phillips.
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Victor Pasmore was commissioned to make a mural for the new Newcastle Civic Centre.
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The structure became the focus for local criticism over the failures of the Development Corporation but Victor Pasmore remained a defender of his work, returning to the town to face critics of the Pavilion at a public meeting in 1982.
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Victor Pasmore represented Britain at the 1961 Venice Biennale, was participating artist at the Documenta II 1959 in Kassel and was a trustee of the Tate Gallery, donating a number of works to the collection.
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Victor Pasmore was a leading figure in the promotion of abstract art and reform of the fine art education system.
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Between 1950 and 1954 Victor Pasmore taught at the Central School of Art.
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Victor Pasmore died in Gudja, Malta, on 23 January 1998, aged 89.
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On 3 November 2014, the Central Bank of Malta, in collaboration with the Victor Pasmore Foundation, inaugurated the Victor Pasmore Gallery in the Central Bank's premises at the Polverista Gallery.