St IVES SCHOOL - Although artists had visited St Ives for many years it was not until the establishment of a pottery by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in 1920's that the town started to become known for 20th-century art.
St Ives artists (St Ives school of painting). In 1939 *Stokes invited B. *Nicholson and *Hepworth to move from London to St Ives in Cornwall. Soon St Ives became a lively visual cultural centre which included A.
(Note 2. For British avant-garde abstraction (c.1939-75) please see: St Ives School.)
Abstract Expressionism - More Colour, No More Geometry ...
 See also: Engraving, Sculpture, Visual art, Collage, Watercolour
  
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