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1940-43 (two forms)

NICHOLSON, Ben

1940-43 (two forms)
Image: © Angela Verren Taunt. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Under the influence of the Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian, Nicholson became the most uncompromising British modernist. Between 1933 and 1945 he investigated form and space through abstract arrangements of circles and rectangles. Here, the overall effect is of lightness and clarity. The dark passages are surrounded with lighter hues and the large rectangle at the right is pierced by a white block. The 'Two Forms' of the title float before a field of bands graded from off-white to blue-grey.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2036

Creation/Production

NICHOLSON, Ben
Date: 1940-1943

Acquisition

Purchase, 1975

Techniques

Oil on canvas on board
Techniques (fine art)
Art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

Oil

Location

In store
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  • Art And Design Movements
  • Constructivism
  • Fine Art
  • Nicholson, Ben
  • Painting
  • Seven And Five Society

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