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Dennis Frost

Carfury
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

Carfury
Carfury
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H 6.58 in Dm 10.32 in
Drawing - Papier Dechiré
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Drawing - Papier Dechiré
Drawing - Papier Dechiré
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H 8 in Dm 10.48 in
Study for Blackawton
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Study for Blackawton
Study for Blackawton
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H 7.01 in Dm 10.08 in
Domino
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Domino
Domino
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H 10.83 in Dm 9.06 in
Untitled
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Untitled
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H 6.89 in Dm 4.53 in
Miniature White Painting
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell, all of whom
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Miniature White Painting
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H 3.15 in Dm 7.25 in
Yellow Enclosed
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Icon
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell, all of whom were alive to
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

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H 5.01 in W 6.97 in
Open Blue
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Open Blue
H 10.01 in W 6.97 in
Painting - Winter 1992
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Untitled
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H 7.01 in Dm 4.41 in
Black Ground Drawing with Copper, White & Blue
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Black Ground Drawing - Inset Blue & Red with Yellow on White
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
artists impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Black Ground Drawing with Copper & White
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Etruscan Wall
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell, all of whom
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Game
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell, all of whom were alive to the unique
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Crystals Emerging From A Solid
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Pencil

Calendar Collage
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Paper, Mixed Media

Calendar Collage
Calendar Collage
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H 10.08 in W 7.8 in
Figures in the Red
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil

Figures in the Red
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H 10.08 in W 7.8 in
Small Painting - White/Grey
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Small Painting - White/Grey
Small Painting - White/Grey
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H 5.52 in Dm 5.52 in
Henge
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Henge
Henge
H 4.77 in W 6.86 in
Snowfall
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Snowfall
Snowfall
H 4.89 in W 3.75 in
Osmington Scrub
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Nower's Copse
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1960s Naturalistic Abstract Paintings

Materials

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Nower's Copse
Nower's Copse
H 4.61 in W 11.82 in D 6.62 in
Bowman - Cadmium Orange
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell, all of whom were alive to the unique
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Pencil

Bowman - Cadmium Orange
Bowman - Cadmium Orange
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H 13.47 in W 6.46 in
Variations on Verticals No 3
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Pencil

Variations on Verticals No 2
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Pencil

Variations on Verticals No 1
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Pencil

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George Dannatt for sale on 1stDibs

George Dannatt’s career as a painter and sculptor ended with the artist’s death in 2009 at the age of 94. He was a respected member of a group of artists impressed by the qualities of the English countryside and coastline, including Terry Frost, John Wells, Bryan Winter and Dennis Mitchell. Working from his studio in Wiltshire and travelling frequently among the villages, hills and coastline of the region, Dannatt would take home pencil sketches of field systems, cliffs and beaches, with notes on colours to be used and shapes to be investigated. His life-long interest in the geometry of nature, together with his virtuosity with colour, texture, tone and balance, are hallmarks of his style. Viewers will notice the very precise geometry in this work which is composed of strong horizontal, vertical and curvilinear elements which interconnect. Dannatt’s life-long involvement in the landscape resulted in an important contribution to the Wessex landscape school – a distinctive and perhaps unique artistic formation that belongs to the established history of modern British art.

A Close Look at abstract Art

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.

Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?

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