Cultural Heritage of Great Britain: рainting
Introduction
plays an important role in our life.
First of all art is a creative activity of humans. Also it is one of the major
features which differs us from animals. Art helps us to discover our talents
and different, unique and unknown edges of our character. From my point of view
if you don’t know anything about art you are not an interesting person to be
connected with.my opinion art and people are inseparable things. Since the
beginning of the people art has been going hand by hand with people. People
have made rock and cave drawings since prehistoric times. But since that time
many ages had passed. In every age the art has progressed and developed.
Especially from the 14th century that progress was brighter to emerge. Since
the 14th century, each century has produced artists who have created great
drawings. is a bit different nowadays. The word "art" has a special
meaning. It means something beautiful. The paintings of skilled painters are
appreciated and admired by millions of people today, by those who can see the
beauty. Art comprises weaving rugs, tapestries, ceramic work. So there are a
lot of types of art. Nevertheless one can trace basic principles in art. All
kinds of it require the same characteristics. The separate parts of a work of
art should be arranged in pattern. The form itself, a pleasing shape and
balance are extremely important. knows and is fond of art of 18th and 19th
centuries, but the most don’t know any painters of the contemporary art. Last
year I made a research work about the British art of the 18th -19th centuries
this year I’d like to introduce contemporary areas and painters of the 20th
-21st centuries of Great Britain. So the aim of the project is to present the
most famous British contemporary currents of art. To reach this goal I’m going
to investigate the level of art development in Great Britain, to acquaint with
the most unforgettable painters of this country.
1. Periods of Art in Great
Britain
.1 Earliest Art and Medieval
oldest surviving British
art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art
produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of
Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC,
and developed a particular "Insular
Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number
of bronze mirror-backs decorated with intricate patterns of curves, spirals and
trumpet-shapes. Only on the British Isles can Celtic decorative style be seen
to have survived throughout the Roman period, as shown in objects like the
Staffordshire Moorlands Pan and the resurgence of Celtic motifs, now blended
with Germanic interlace and Mediterranean elements, in Christian Insular art.
This had a brief but spectacular flowering in all the countries that now form
the United Kingdom in the 7th and 8th centuries, in works such as the Book of
Kells and Book of Lindisfarne. The Insular style was influential across
Northern Europe, and especially so in later Anglo-Saxon art, although this
received new Continental influences. The English contribution to Romanesque art
and Gothic art was considerable, especially in illuminated manuscripts and
monumental sculpture for churches, though the other countries were now
essentially provincial, and in the 15th century Britain struggled to keep up
with developments in painting on the Continent. A few examples of top-quality
English painting on walls or panels from before 1500 have survived, including
the Westminster Retable, The Wilton Diptych and some survivals from paintings
in Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster can be seen nowadays.
1.2 British Art in the
16th-19th Centuries
artists of the Tudor court in the
Renaissance and their successors until the early 18th century were mostly
imported talents, often from Flanders. These included Hans Holbein the Younger,
Van Dyck, Rubens, Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemesia, Sir Peter Lely
and Sir Godfrey Kneller. An exception must be made for the portrait miniature,
where a strong English tradition began with the Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard,
who had learnt from Continental artists, and continued with Isaac Oliver and
many other artists. By the following century a number of significant English
painters of fullsize portraits began to emerge, and towards the end of the
century the other great English specialism, of landscape painting, also began
to be practiced by natives. Both were heavily influenced by Anthony Van Dyck in
particular, although he does not seem to have trained any English painters
himself, he was a powerful influence in promoting the baroque style. One of the
most important native painters of this period was William Dobson. During the
17th century the English nobility also became important collectors of European
art, led by King Charles I and Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel in the first
half of the century. By the end of the century the Grand Tour had become established
for wealthy young English people.the 18th century, English painting finally
developed a distinct style and tradition again, still concentrating on
portraits and landscapes, but also attempting, without much success, to find an
approach to history painting, regarded as the highest of the hierarchy of
genres. Sir James Thornhill's paintings were executed in the Baroque style of
the European Continent and William Hogarth reflected the new English
middle-class temperament - English in habits, disposition, and temperament, as
well as by birth. His satirical works, full of black humour, point out to
contemporary society the deformities, weaknesses and vices of London life.were,
as elsewhere in Europe, much the easiest and most profitable way for an artist
to make a living, and the English tradition continued to draw of the relaxed
elegance of the portrait style developed in England by Van Dyck. Leading
portraitists were Thomas Gainsborough; Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder of the
Royal Academy of Arts. The early 19th century also saw the emergence of the
Norwich school of painters. Influenced by Dutch landscape painting and the
landscape of Norfolk, the Norwich School were the first provincial art-movement
outside of London. Paul Sandby was called the father of English watercolour
painting. Other notable 18th and 19th-century landscape painters include
Richard Wilson (born in Wales); George Morland; John Robert Cozens; Thomas
Girtin; John Constable; J. M. W. Turner; and John Linnell.
1.3 20th Century of British Art
many respects the Victorian era
continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and the Royal Academy
became increasingly ossified; the unmistakably late Victorian figure of Frank
Dicksee was appointed President in 1924. In photography Pictorialism aimed to
achieve artistic indeed painterly effects; The Linked Ring contained the
leading practitioners. The American John Singer Sargent was the most successful
London portraitist at the start of the century, with John Lavery, Augustus John
and William Orpen rising figures. John's sister Gwen John lived in France, and
her intimate portraits were relatively little appreciated until decades after
her death. British attitudes to modern art were "polarized" at the
end of the 19th century. Modernist movements were both cherished and vilified
by artists and critics; Impressionism was initially regarded by "many
conservative critics" as a "subversive foreign influence", but
became "fully assimilated" into British art during the early-20th
century. The London-born Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957), was based
in Dublin, at once a romantic painter, a symbolist and an expressionist.was a
brief coming together of a number of Modernist artists in the years immediately
before 1914; members included Wyndham Lewis, the sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein,
David Bomberg, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Lawrence Atkinson, the American photographer
Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frederick Etchells, the French sculptor Henri
Gaudier-Brzeska, Cuthbert Hamilton, Christopher Nevinson, William Roberts,
Edward Wadsworth, Jessica Dismorr, Helen Saunders, and Dorothy Shakespear. The
early 20th century also includes the Bloomsbury Group a group of mostly English
writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, including painter Dora
Carrington, painter and art critic Roger Fry, art critic Clive Bell, painter
Vanessa Bell, painter Duncan Grant among others; very fashionable at the time,
their work in the visual arts looks less impressive today. British modernism
was to remain somewhat tentative until after World War II, though figures such
as Ben Nicholson kept in touch with European developments.Sickert and the
Camden Town Group developed an English style of Impressionism and
Post-Impressionism with a strong strand of social documentary, including Harold
Gilman, Spencer Frederick Gore, Charles Ginner, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond
and Lucien Pissarro (the son of French Impressionist painter Camille
Pissarro).Where their colouring is often notoriously drab, the Scottish
Colourists indeed mostly used bright light and colour; some, like Samuel Peploe
and John Duncan Fergusson, were living in France to find suitable subjects.
They were initially inspired by Sir William McTaggart (1835 - 1910), a Scottish
landscape painter associated with Impressionism.reaction to the horrors of the
First World War prompted a return to pastoral subjects as represented by Paul
Nash and Eric Ravilious, mainly a printmaker. Stanley Spencer painted mystical
works, as well as landscapes, and the sculptor, printmaker and typographer Eric
Gill produced elegant simple forms in a style related to Art Deco. The Euston
Road School was a group of "progressive" realists of the late 1930s,
including the influential teacher William Coldstream. Surrealism, with artists
including John Tunnard and the Birmingham Surrealists, was briefly popular in
the 1930s, influencing Roland Penrose and Henry Moore. Stanley William Hayter
was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism
and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. In 1927 Hayter founded the
legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris. Since his death in 1988, it has been
known as Atelier Contrepoint. Hayter became one of the most influential
printmakers of the 20th century.Fashionable portraitists included Meredith Frampton
in a hard-faced Art Deco classicism, Augustus John, and Sir Alfred Munnings if
horses were involved. Munnings was President of the Royal Academy 1944-1949 and
led a jeering hostility to Modernism. The photographers of the period include
Bill Brandt, Angus McBean and the diarist Cecil Beaton.the 1950s the London
based Independent Group formed; from which pop art emerged in 1956 with the
exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts This Is Tomorrow, as a British
reaction to abstract expressionism. The International Group was the topic of a
two-day, international conference at the Tate Britain in March 2007. The
Independent Group is regarded as the precursor to the Pop Art movement in
Britain and the United States. The This is Tomorrow show featured Scottish
artist Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, and artist John McHale amongst
others, and the group included the influential art critic Lawrence Alloway as
well.the 1960s Sir Anthony Caro became a leading figure of British sculpture
along with a younger generation of abstract artists including Isaac Witkin,
Phillip King and William G. Tucker. John Hoyland, Howard Hodgkin, John Walker,
Ian Stephenson, Robyn Denny and John Plumb were British painters who emerged at
that time and who reflected the new international style of Color Field
painting. During the 1960s another group of British artists offered a radical
alternative to more conventional artmaking and they included Bruce McLean,
Barry Flanagan, Richard Long and Gilbert and George. British pop art painters
David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips, Peter Blake
(best known for the cover-art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), the
sculptor Allen Jones were part of the sixties art scene as was the British
based American painter R. B. Kitaj. Photorealism in the hands of Malcolm Morley
(who was awarded the first Turner Prize in 1984) emerged in the 1960s as well
as the op-art of Bridget Riley. Michael Craig Martin was an influential teacher
of some of the Young British Artists and is known for the conceptual work, An
Oak Tree (1973).
1.4 Contemporary Art
modern, contemporary British art,
particularly that of the Young British Artists, has been said to be
"characterised by a fundamental concern with material culture ...
perceived as a post-imperial cultural anxiety".The annual Turner Prize,
founded in 1984 and organized by the Tate, has developed as a highly publicized
showcase for contemporary British art. Among the beneficiaries have been
several members of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, which includes
Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, and Tracey Emin, who rose to prominence after
the Freeze exhibition of 1988, with the backing of Charles Saatchi and achieved
international recognition with their version of conceptual art. This often
featured installations, notably Hirst's vitrine containing a preserved shark.
The Tate gallery and eventually the Royal Academy also gave them exposure. The
influence of Saatchi's generous and wide-ranging patronage was to become a
matter of some controversy, as was that of Jay Jopling, the most influential
London gallerist.1999, the Stuckists figurative painting group which includes
Billy Childish and Charles Thomson was founded as a reaction to the YBAs. The
Federation of British Artists hosts shows of traditional figurative painting.
Jack Vettriano and Beryl Cook have widespread popularity, but not establishment
recognition. Banksy made a reputation with street graffiti and is now a
highly-valued mainstream artist. In 2004, the Walker Art Gallery staged The
Stuckists Punk Victorian, the first national museum exhibition of the Stuckist
art movement.Gormley produces sculptures, mostly in metal and based on the
human figure, which include the 20 metres (66 ft) high Angel of the North near
Gateshead, one of the first of a number of very large public sculptures
produced in the 2000s, Another Place, and Event Horizon. The Indian-born
sculptor AnishKapoor has public works around the world, including Cloud Gate in
Chicago and Sky Mirror in various locations; like much of his work these use
curved mirror-like steel surfaces. The environmental sculptures of British
earth works artist Andy Goldsworthy have been created in many locations around
the world. Using natural found materials they are often very emphemeral, and
are recorded in photographs of which several collections in book form have been
published. Richard Long is another land artist, often working with river mud.
Grayson Perry works in various media, including ceramics.September 2010 John
Hoyland and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker,
Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B. Kitaj were included in an exhibition
entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of
Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art.
2. Movements of Modern British
Art
.1 Vorticism
, an offshoot of Cubism, was a
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th
century. It was based in London but international in make-up and
ambition.Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis
and others established after disagreeing with Omega Workshops founder Roger
Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism. Lewis himself
saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and
Expressionism.the style grew out of Cubism, it is more closely related to
Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age and all things modern (cf.
Cubo-Futurism). However, Vorticism diverged from Futurism in the way it tried
to capture movement in an image. In a Vorticist painting modern life is shown
as an array of bold lines and harsh colours drawing the viewer's eye into the
centre of the canvas.name Vorticism was given to the movement by Ezra Pound in
1913, although Lewis, usually seen as the central figure in the movement, had
been producing paintings in the same style for a year or so previously.than
Lewis, the main figures associated with Vorticism were Malcolm Arbuthnot,
Lawrence Atkinson, one of the signatories of BLAST. David Bomberg, Alvin
Langdon Coburn, Jacob Epstein, Frederick Etchells, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska,
Jessica Dismorr, Cuthbert Hamilton, Christopher Nevinson, William Roberts,
Helen Saunders, Dorothy Shakespear and Edward Wadsworth were also contributors
to the development of the movement . The most recent active participant is the
grandson of Lawrence Atkinson, Christian N Atkinson, born November 1939 in
Aldeburgh, now residing in Capel St. Andrew. Some of Christian's work can be
seen on Saatchi online.Vorticists published two issues of the literary magazine
BLAST, in June 1914 and July 1915 which Lewis edited. It contained work by Ezra
Pound and T. S. Eliot as well as by the Vorticists themselves. Its
typographical adventurousness was cited by El Lissitzky as one of the major
forerunners of the revolution in graphic design in the 1920s and 1930s.and
sculpture shown at the Rebel Art Centre in 1914, before the formation of the
Vorticist Group was experimental work by Lewis, Wadsworth, Shakespear and
others, using angular simplification and abstraction. This work was
contemporary with and comparable to abstraction by
European artists such as Kandinski, Frantisek Kupka and the Russian Rayist
Group. The Vorticists held only one exhibition, in 1915 at the Doré
Gallery, in London. The main section of the exhibition included work by Jessica
Dismorr, Frederick Etchells, Lewis,
Gaudier-Brzeska, William Roberts, Helen Saunders and Edward Wadsworth. There
was a smaller section area titled ‘Those Invited To Show’ that included several
other artists. Jacob Epstein was notably not represented, although did have his
drawings reproduced in 'Blast!'.this, the movement broke up, largely due to the
onset of World War I and public apathy towards the work. Gaudier-Brzeska was
killed in military service, while leading figures such as Epstein distanced
themselves stylistically from Lewis. A brief attempt by Lewis to revive the
movement in 1920 under the name Group X proved unsuccessful. Pound, however,
through his correspondence with Lewis, was understood to hold a commitment to
the goals of the movement as much as forty years after its demise.Lewis is
generally seen as the central figure in the movement, it has been suggested
that this was more due to his contacts and ability as a self-publicist and
polemicist than the quality of his works. A 1956 exhibition at the Tate Gallery
was called Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, highlighting his prominent place in the
movement. This angered other members of the group. Bomberg and Roberts (who
published a series of "Vortex Pamphlets" on the matter) both
protested strongly the assertion of Lewis, which was printed in the exhibition
catalogue: "Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did, and said, at
a certain period." The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University held an
exhibition entitled The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York,
1914-18 from September 30, 2010 through January 2, 2011. The Peggy Guggenheim
Collection (Venice) held an exhibition entitled: The Vorticists: Rebel Artists
in London and New York 1914-18 between January 29 and May 15, 2011. Tate
Britain held an exhibition entitled The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern
World, between the 14th of June and the 4th of September 2011.
2.2 Pop Art
art is an art movement that emerged
in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art
challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced
visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine
art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or
combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art
refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.art
employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane
cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant
ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. And due to
its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is
aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art,
emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often
through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical
means of reproduction or rendering techniques.of pop art is considered
incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult
for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art
movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of
Postmodern Art themselves.art often takes as its imagery that which is
currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently
in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels,
by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail
items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's
Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.origins
of pop art in North America and Great Britain developed differently. In
America, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art
as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to
defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract
Expressionism. By contrast, the origin in post-War Britain, while employing
irony and parody, was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical
imagery of American popular culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices
that were affecting whole patterns of life, while improving prosperity of a
society. Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American
popular culture viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by
the experiences, of living within that culture. Similarly, pop art was both an
extension and a repudiation of Dadaism. While pop art and Dadaism explored some
of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic
impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of
mass culture. Among those artists seen by some as producing work leading up to
Pop art are Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, and Man Ray.
Independent Group (IG), founded in London in 1952, is regarded as the precursor
to the pop art movement. They were a gathering of young painters, sculptors,
architects, writers and critics who were challenging prevailing modernist
approaches to culture as well as traditional views of Fine Art. The group
discussions centered on popular culture implications from such elements as mass
advertising, movies, product design, comic strips, science fiction and
technology. At the first Independent Group meeting in 1952, co-founding member,
artist and sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi presented a lecture using a series of
collages titled Bunk! that he had assembled during his time in Paris between
1947-1949. This material consisted of 'found objects' such as, advertising,
comic book characters, magazine covers and various mass produced graphics that
mostly represented American popular culture. One of the images in that
presentation was Paolozzi's 1947 collage, I was a Rich Man's Plaything, which
includes the first use of the word "pop″, appearing in a cloud of
smoke emerging from a revolver. Following Paolozzi's seminal presentation in
1952, the IG focused primarily on the imagery of American popular culture,
particularly mass advertising.coinage of the complete term "pop art"
was made by John McHale for the ensuing movement in 1954. "Pop art"
as a moniker was then used in discussons by IG members in the Second Session of
the IG in 1955, and the specific term "pop art" first appeared in
published print in an article by IG members Alison and Peter Smithson in Arc,
1956. However, the term is often credited to British art critic/curator,
Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media, although
the term he uses is "popular mass culture". Nevertheless, Alloway was
one of the leading critics to defend the inclusion of the imagery found in mass
culture in fine art.
2.3 Stuckism
is an international art movement
founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative
painting in opposition to conceptual art. The initial group of 13 British
artists has expanded to 220 groups in 50 countries as of July 2011.have issued
several manifestos, the first one being The Stuckists, consists of 20 points
starting with "Stuckism is a quest for authenticity". Remodernism,
the other well-known manifesto of the movement is a criticism of postmodernism
and aims to get back to the true spirit of modernism, to produce art with
spiritual value regardless of style, subject matter or medium. In another
manifesto they also define themselves as anti-art which is against anti-art and
for art.exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists'
first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery,
as part of the Liverpool Biennial. The group has demonstrated annually at Tate
Britain against the Turner Prize since 2000, sometimes dressed in clown
costumes. They have also come out in opposition to the Charles
Saatchi-patronised Young British Artists.painting is the dominant artistic form
of Stuckism, artists using other media such as photography, sculpture, film and
collage have also joined, and share the Stuckist opposition to conceptualism
and ego-art.name "Stuckism" was coined in January 1999 by Charles
Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish. In
it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was
"stuck! stuck! stuck!" with his art, poetry and music. Later that
month, Thomson approached Childish with a view to co-founding an art group
called Stuckism, which Childish agreed to, on the basis that Thomson would do
the work for the group, as Childish already had a full schedule.were eleven
other founding members: Philip Absolon, Frances Castle, Sheila Clark, Eamon
Everall, Ella Guru, Wolf Howard, Bill Lewis, Sanchia Lewis (who joined during
the first show in September and is unrelated to Bill Lewis), Joe Machine,
Sexton Ming, and Charles Williams. The membership has evolved since its
founding through creative collaborations: the group was originally promoted as
painters, but members work in various other media, including poetry, fiction,
performance, photography, film and music.1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis
and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group, to which Absolon
and Sanchia Lewis had also contributed. Peter Waite's Rochester Pottery staged
a series of solo painting shows. In 1982, TVS broadcast a documentary on the
poets. That year, Emin, then a fashion student, and Childish started a
relationship; her writing was edited by Bill Lewis, printed by Thomson and
published by Childish. Group members published dozens of works. The poetry
group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets
LP. Clark, Howard and Machine became involved over the following years. Thomson
got to know Williams, who was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a
friend of Emin; Thomson also met Everall. During the foundation of the group,
Ming brought in his girlfriend, Guru, who in turn invited Castle.August 1999,
Childish and Thomson wrote The Stuckists manifest which places great importance
on the value of painting as a medium, as well as its use for communication, the
expression of emotion and of experience - as opposed to what Stuckists see as
the superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and
postmodernism. The most contentious statement in the manifesto is:
"Artists who don't paint aren't artists".second and third manifestos,
respectively An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism, were sent
to Nicholas Serota which received a brief reply: "Thank you for your open
letter dated 6 March. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment
to make on your letter, or your manifesto 'Remodernism'."Remodernism
manifesto, the Stuckists declared that they aimed to replace postmodernism with
remodernism, a period of renewed spiritual (as opposed to religious) values in
art, culture and society. Other manifestos include Handy Hints, Anti-anti-art,
The Cappuccino writer and the Idiocy of Contemporary Writing, The Turner Prize,
The Decreptitude of the Critic and Stuckist critique of Damien Hirst.have been
written by other Stuckists, including the Students for Stuckism group. An
"Underage Stuckists" group was founded in 2006 with their own
manifesto for teenagers by two 16-year olds, Liv Soul and Rebekah Maybury, on
MySpace. In 2006, Allen Herndon published The Manifesto of the American
Stuckists, the content of which was challenged by the Los Angeles Stuckists
group.
3. Famous Painters of Great
Britain
.1 Percy Wyndham Lewis
3.2 Paul Nash
Nash (11 May 1889 - 11 July 1946)
was a British landscape painter, surrealist and war artist, as well as a
book-illustrator, writer and designer of applied art. He was the older brother
of the artist John Nash.son of a successful lawyer and a mentally unstable
mother who died in a mental asylum in 1910, Nash was born in London on 11 May
1889. He was educated at St Paul's School, and originally intended for a career
in the Navy, like his maternal grandfather. However, he failed his exams, and
decided instead to take up art as a career. Studying first at the Chelsea
Polytechnic, he went on to the London County Council School of Photo-engraving
and Lithography, where his work was spotted and praised by Selwyn Image. He was
advised by his friend, the poet Gordon Bottomley, and by the artist William
Rothenstein, that he should attend the Slade School of Art at University
College, London. He enrolled there in October 1910, though he later recorded
that on his first meeting with the Professor of Drawing, Henry Tonks, 'It was
evident he considered that neither the Slade, nor I, were likely to derive much
benefit'.Slade was then opening its doors to a remarkable crop of young talents
- what Tonks later described as the School's second and last 'Crisis of
Brilliance' (the first had seen such stars as Augustus John and Percy Wyndham
Lewis). Nash's fellow students included Ben Nicholson, Stanley Spencer, Mark
Gertler, William Roberts, Dora Carrington, Christopher R. W. Nevinson and
Edward Wadsworth. However, he struggled with figure drawing, and spent only a
year at the School. Influenced by the poetry of William Blake and the paintings
of Samuel Palmer and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nash had shows in 1912 and 1913
(sometimes alone, sometimes with his brother John), largely devoted to drawings
and watercolours of brooding landscapes. By the summer of 1914 he was enjoying
some success.the outbreak of World War I, Nash reluctantly enlisted in the
Artists' Rifles and was sent to the Western Front in February 1917 as a second
lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment. A few days before the Ypres offensive he
fell into a trench. He broke a rib and was invalided home. While recuperating
in London, Nash worked from his front-line sketches to produce a series of
drawings of the war. This work, which shows the influence of the literary
magazine BLAST and the Vorticist movement of which it was a manifesto, was
well-received when exhibited later that year at the Goupil Gallery.a result of
this exhibition, Nevinson advised Nash to approach Charles Masterman, head of
the government's War Propaganda Bureau (WPB). Nash was recruited as an official
war artist, and in November 1917 he returned to the Western Front where his
drawings resulted in his first oil paintings. Nash's work during the war
included The Menin Road, We Are Making a New World, The Ypres Salient at Night,
The Mule Track, A Howitzer Firing, Ruined Country and Spring in the Trenches.
They are some of the most powerful and enduring images of the Great War painted
by an English artist.used his opportunity as a war artist to bring home the
full horrors of the conflict. As he wrote to his wife from the front on 16
November 1917:
"I am no longer an artist. I am
a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who
want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it
will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls."the early
1920s, Nash, along with several other artists became prominent in the Society
of Wood Engravers and in 1920 was involved in its first exhibition. He became
close friends with Eric Fitch Daglish whom he educated in the art of wood
engraving and Daglish as a result went on to become a successful engraver.was
also a pioneer of modernism in Britain, promoting the avant-garde European
styles of abstraction and surrealism in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1933 he
co-founded the influential modern art movement Unit One with fellow artists
Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth and the critic
Herbert Read. It was a short-lived but important move towards the
revitalisation of British art in the inter-war period.World War II Nash was
again employed as an official war artist, this time by the Ministry of
Information and the Air Ministry, and paintings he produced during this period
include the Battle of Britain and Totes Meer (Dead Sea).found much inspiration
in British landscape, particularly landscapes with a sense of ancient history, such
as burial mounds, Iron Age hill forts such as Wittenham Clumps and the standing
stones at Avebury in Wiltshire. When in 1932 he was invited to illustrate a
book of his own choice Nash unhesitating choose Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial
and The Garden of Cyrus providing the publisher with a set of no less than 32
illustrations to accompany Browne's Discourses. In his final years, he also
returned to the influence of Blake that had so affected his early art, for
example in the series of gigantic sunflowers including Sunflower and Sun (1942)
and Eclipse of the Sunflower (1945) based on Blake's poem Ah! Sunflower.
3.3 Billy Childish
Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1
December 1959) is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film
maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work -
he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early
poetry and the novels My Fault (1996), Notebooks of a Naked Youth (1997), Sex
Crimes of the Futcher (2004) - The Idiocy of Idears (2007), and in several of
his songs, notably in the instrumental "Paedophile" (1992) (featuring
a photograph of the man who sexually abused him on the front cover) and
"Every Bit of Me" (1993). From 1981 till 1985 Childish had a relationship
with artist Tracey Emin and has also been associated with another British
artist Stella Vine.is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional
expression and was a co-founder of the Stuckism art movement with Charles
Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of
Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the
publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist
and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes
Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures
on the British art scene".a prospective student lacking the necessary
entry qualifications, Childish was accepted into art school four times on the strength
of his paintings and drawings. Childish studied foundation at Medway College of
Design in 1977-78, and was then accepted onto the painting department of St
Martins School of Art in 1978, before quitting a month later. He was reaccepted
at St Martins in 1980, but was expelled in 1982 for refusing to paint in the
art school and other unruly behaviour. At St Martins, Childish became friends
with Peter Doig with whom he shared an appreciation of Munch, Van Gogh and
blues music. Doig later co-curated Childish's first London show at the Cubit
Street Gallery. In the early/mid 1980s Childish was a "major
influence" on the artist Tracey Emin, who he met after his expulsion from
St Martins when she was a fashion student at Medway College of Design. Childish
has been cited as the influence for Emin's later confessional art. Childish
paints in a personal style, which parallels his passion for the elemental in
both writing and music. He has exhibited extensively since the 1980s and was
featured in the British Art Show in 2000. Since 2002 Childish has been
represented in London by the L-13 Gallery, along with Jamie Reid and James
Cauty (with whom sometimes collaborates). In 1996 Childish painted "The
Drinker", influenced by Hans Fallada's novel of the same title. In 2008
Childish commenced a series of paintings based on the life and death of the
Swiss author Robert Walser, whom Childish has also cited as an influence on his
prose work. In 2008 Childish made several paintings of the steam paddle tug
John H Amos which was moored on a pontoon at Rochester. In 2010 a major
exhibition of Childish's recent paintings, writing and music was held at The
ICA London, with a concurrent painting show running at White Columns Gallery in
NY. Childish is represented by neugerriemschneider Berlin, and Lehmann Maupin,
NY.
4. British Comics
.1 History of British Comics
art struckism british
comic
A British comic is a periodical
published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips. It is generally
referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic
paper.comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at
children, and are published weekly, although some are also published on a
fortnightly or monthly schedule. The top three longest-running comics in the world,
The Dandy, The Beano and Comic Cuts are all British, although in modern times
British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and
Japanese manga.description comics derived from the names of popular titles such
as Comic Cuts, and from the fact that in the beginning all the titles presented
only comic (humorous) content.comics typically differ from the American comic
book. Although historically they shared the same format size, based on a sheet
of imperial paper folded in half, British comics have moved away from this
size, with The Beano and The Dandy the last to adopt a standard magazine size
in the late 1980s. Until that point, the British comic was also usually printed
on newsprint, with black or a dark red used as the dark colour and the four
colour process used on the cover. The Beano and The Dandy both switched to an
all-colour format in 1993.aimed at the semi-literate working class, the comic
eventually came to be seen as childish, and hence was marketed towards
children. In today's market in the UK, comics intended for teenagers or adults
are considered to be stretching the medium beyond its primary audience., strips
were of one or two pages in length, with a single issue of a comic containing
upwards of a dozen separate strips, featuring different characters, although
strips now last longer and tend to continue over a number of issues and period
of time.some comics contained only strips, other publications have had a
slightly different focus, providing readers with articles about, and
photographs of, pop stars and television/film actors, plus more general
articles about teenage life, whilst throwing in a few comic strips for good
measure.the 1930s, it has been traditional that the most popular comics have
annuals, 150 or more pages bound in hardback, usually published just in time
for Christmas, and summer special editions of 96 pages or more in
softback.British comics history, there are some extremely long-running
publications such as The Beano and The Dandy published by D. C. Thomson &
Co., a newspaper company based in Dundee, Scotland. The Dandy began in 1937 and
The Beano in 1938. They are both still going today. The Boys' Own Paper lasted
from 1879 to 1967.intellectual span of British comics over the years has
stretched all the way from the cheerfully moronic obscenities of Viz (adult) to
the political awareness of Crisis (adolescent to adult) and the sound
educational values of Look and Learn (children's). There has also been a
continuous tradition of black and white comics, published in a smaller page
size format, many of them war titles like Air Ace inspiring youngsters with
tales of the exploits of the army, navy and Royal Air Force mainly in the two
world wars, also some romance titles and some westerns in this format.the 19th
century, story papers (containing illustrated text stories), known as
"penny dreadfuls" from their cover price, served as entertainment for
British children. Full of close-printed text with few illustrations, they were
essentially no different from a book, except that they were somewhat shorter
and that typically the story was serialised over many weekly issues in order to
maintain sales.serial stories could run to hundreds of installments if they
were popular. And to pad out a successful series, writers would insert quite
extraneous material such as the geography of the country in which the action
was occurring, so that the story would extend into more issues. Plagiarism was
rife, with magazines pirating competitors' successes under a few cosmetic name changes.
Apart from action and historical stories, there was also a fashion for horror
and the supernatural, with epics like Varney the Vampire running for years.
Horror, in particular, contributed to the epithet "penny dreadful".
Stories featuring criminals such as 'Spring-Heeled Jack', pirates, highwaymen
(especially Dick Turpin), and detectives (including Sexton Blake) dominated
decades of the Victorian and early 20th-century weeklies.strips-stories told
primarily in strip cartoon form, rather than as a written narrative with
illustrations-emerged only slowly. Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884) is reputed
to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character, and the
first British comic that would be recognised as such today. This strip cost one
penny and was designed for adults. Ally, the recurring character, was a working
class fellow who got up to various forms of mischief and often suffered for
it.1890 two more comic magazines debuted before the British public, Comic Cuts
and Illustrated Chips, both published by Amalgamated Press. These magazines
notoriously reprinted British and American material, previously published in
newspapers and magazines, without permission. The success of these comics was
such that Amalgamated's owner, Alfred Harmsworth, was able to launch The Daily
Mirror and The Daily Mail newspapers on the profits.
4.2 Famous British Comics
Dandy is a long running children's
comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first
issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic,
after Detective Comics (cover dated March 1937) and Il Giornalino (cover dated
1 October 1924). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as Dandy
Xtreme.first issue, under the name The Dandy Comic, was published on 4 December
1937. It was published weekly until 6 September 1941, when wartime paper
shortages forced it to switch to fortnightly, alternating with The Beano. It
returned to its weekly schedule on 30 July 1949. From 17 July 1950, the magazine
changed its name to just The Dandy.original editor was Albert Barnes. According
to The Legend of Desperate Dan (published 1997), Dan's famous chin was modelled
on Barnes. He stayed in the role until 1982, when he was succeeded by Dave
Torrie. His replacement was Morris Heggie, who left the editorship in 2006 to
become the DC Thomson archivist - Beano editor Euan Kerr was promoted at the
same time. The current editor is Craig Graham.famous British comic is Eagle.
Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to
1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by
Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish
magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating its
message effectively. He was also disillusioned with contemporary children's
literature, and with Anvil artist Frank Hampson created a dummy comic based on
Christian values. Morris hawked the idea to several Fleet Street publishers,
with little success, until Hulton Press decided to take it on.a huge publicity
campaign, the first issue of Eagle was released in April 1950. Revolutionary in
its presentation and content, it was enormously successful; the first issue
sold about 900,000 copies. Featured in colour on the front cover was the
comic's most recognisable story, Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, created by
Hampson with meticulous attention to detail. Other popular stories included
Riders of the Range and P.C. 49. Eagle also contained news and sport sections,
and educational cutaway diagrams of sophisticated machinery. A members club was
created, and a range of related merchandise was licensed for sale.a takeover of
the comic's publisher and a series of acrimonious disputes, Morris left in
1959; Hampson followed shortly thereafter. Although Eagle continued in various
forms, a perceived lowering of editorial standards preceded plummeting sales,
and it was eventually subsumed by its rival, Lion, in 1969. Eagle was
relaunched in 1982 and ran for over 500 issues, before being dropped by its
publisher in 1994.
Conclusion
Britain has a big history of art,
especially history of painting. Britain didn’t have its own school of painting
up to the XVII century. By nowadays Great Britain has a rich history of the school
of painting. Britain reared a great amount of talented painters who reserved
really great masterpieces. Every of this painter had vivid, interesting history
and a particular style.researched British art in detail I came to the
conclusion that British art has suffered radical changes since 17th century.
British contemporary art is rather unique but it has the right for existence.
sum up I’d like to say that the aim of my project has been achieved though I
encountered some difficulties. First of all it was lack of information in the
Internet and it was necessary to look through all the information which was
found and to select requisite one for me. believe that outcomes of this project
can be applied to studying the art of this country at schools and colleges at
English lessons, as there is little information about cultural heritage of
Great Britain in the textbooks nowadays.the outcomes of the survey carried out
among the senior pupils I came to the conclusion that the art of Britain is
little known for the majority of students., I recommend studying the offered
material on British painting at elective courses, English circles, quizzes and
wall newspapers. I am sure it will be useful to extend students’ knowledge
about the cultural heritage of Great Britain, especially painting.
Resources
1. Vasilyeva
L.V. English Language 10th form: art of Great Britain XVII-XX centuries
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