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Title
Bojewyan
Farms
.
Creator
Lanyon, Peter (British painter, 1918-1964)
Date
1951-1952
Cultural Context
British
English
European
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Abstraction
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Agricultural land
Agricultural settlements
Agriculture
Landscapes (representations)
Coastlines
Farming
Farms
Farmland
Villages
Rural areas
Rural land use
Economics
Animals
Domestic animals
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Agriculture
Agricultural productivity
Croplands
Farms
Farming
Economics
Economic & social conditions
Landscapes (Representations)
Villages
Coastlines
Animals
Description
"
Bojewyan
is
a
small
village
near
St
.
Just
in
Cornwall
,
England
. At the
time
of the
painting
local
farmsteads
were
falling
empty
because
they were
uneconomic
.
Lanyon
saw
this as a
serious
threat
to the
region
. His
painting
contains
hints
of a
symbolic
revival
of
fortunes
.
Several
animal
images
and
womb-like
shapes
are
incorporated
into the
design
. The
Cornish
landscape
is
suggested
through
rugged
interlocking
forms
.
(At
the
top
left
the
curve
of the
coastline
is
legible.)
"
(Caption
,
p.30)
; "In
Britain
, the
postwar
atmosphere
of
austerity
in
London
,
presided
over
by a
new
,
guardedly
optimistic
,
Labour
government
,
created
the
conditions
for the
emergence
of an
existentially
tinged
figuration
[…]
.
However
,
away
from the
metropolis
, a
group
of its
former
residents
-
Ben
Nicholson
,
Barbara
Hepworth
, and the
Russian
émigré
Naum
Gabo
-
had
weathered
the
war
years
in and
around
St
.
Ives
in
Cornwall
,
already
a
well-established
artists'
center
. Their
geometric
abstraction
,
which
had
won
international
recognition
in the
1930s
, had a
decisive
effect
after
the
war
on the
painter
Peter
Lanyon
. He
began
to
reformulate
his
basic
commitment
to the
Cornish
landscape
in
terms
of the
post-Cubist
space
and
interpenetration
of
interior
and
exterior
volumes
derived
from their
painting
and
sculpture
respectively
.
[…]
By the
early
1950s
Lanyon's
work
managed
to
reconcile
the
rural
nostalgia
typical
of
'Neo-Romanticism'
(an
important
phenomenon
of the
war
years
encompassing
painters
such
as
Graham
Sutherland
and
John
Piper)
with an
expressionist
handling
and
acknowledgement
of the
picture
plane
in
line
with
Abstract
Expressionism.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.30-31)
Location Depicted
Cornwall (England : County)
England
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Material
Oil on Masonite
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Masonite (TM)
Work Type
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Repository
British Council (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.30. fig.14)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Mrs. S. Lanyon.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-27.jpg
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