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peter lanyon
george peter lanyon was a cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war britain. despite his early death at the age of forty-six he achieved a body of work that is amongst the most original and important reappraisals of modernism in painting to be found anywhere. combining abstract values with radical ideas about landscape and the figure, lanyon navigated a course from constructivism through abstract expressionism to a style close to pop. he also made constructions, pottery and collage.lanyon took up glidi…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of peter lanyon's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
