黑色抽象作品

Pasmore originally called this relief Black Abstract – Growing Form , reflecting how its composition, like much of Pasmore’s work, was based on ideas of organic development. The dominant motif is the progressive build-up of black blotches painted directly onto untreated chipboard – the blotches expanding as they extend down from the top edge of the board. Although the idea of progressive

development from a single motif can be traced to the influence of Paul Klee (1879–1940), Pasmore had also been engaged by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s On Growth and Form - when republished in 1942, it influenced Pasmore and many of his contemporaries.