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landscapes. Among the artists of this period are Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–
1792), George Stubbs (1724–1806), and Thomas Gainsborough (1727–
1788). William Hogarth painted far more down-to-earth portraits and satires,
and was the first great English printmaker.
The late 18th century and the early 19th century was perhaps the most radical
period
in
British
art,
producing William
Blake (1757–1827), John
Constable (1776–1837) and J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), three of the most
influential British artists, each of whom have dedicated spaces allocated for
their work at the Tate Britain.
The Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood (PRB)
achieved
considerable
influence after its foundation in 1848 with paintings that concentrated on
religious, literary, and genre subjects executed in a colourful and minutely
detailed style. PRB artists
included John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti and subsequently Edward Burne-Jones. Also associated with it was
the designer William Morris, whose efforts to make beautiful objects
affordable (or even free) for everyone led to his wallpaper and tile designs to
some extent defining the Victorian aesthetic and
instigating the Arts and
Crafts movement.
Visual artists from the United Kingdom in the 20th century
include Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, and
the pop artists Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake. Also prominent amongst
twentieth-century artists was Henry Moore, regarded as the voice of British
sculpture, and of British modernism in general.
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Sir Jacob Epstein was a
pioneer of modern sculpture. In 1958 artisplt Gerald Holtom designed the
protest
logo for the British CND, which later became a universal peace
symbol used in many different versions worldwide.
As a reaction to abstract
expressionism, pop art emerged originally in England at the end of the 1950s.
Known for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, Lucian
Freud was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.
Freud
was depicted in Francis Bacon's 1969 oil painting,
Three Studies of Lucian
Freud
, which was sold for $142.4 million in November 2013, the highest
price attained
at auction to that point, and the highest ever for a British
painter.
The 1990s saw the Young British Artists, Damien Hirst and Tracey
Emin.
Randolph
Caldecott, Walter
Crane, Kate
Greenaway, John
Tenniel, Aubrey
Beardsley, Roger
Hargreaves, Arthur
Rackham, John
Leech, George Cruikshank and Beatrix Potter were notable book illustrators.
In the late 1960s, British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson co-founded the
English
graphic art group Hipgnosis, who have designed many iconic single
and album covers for rock bands. His works were notable for
their surreal elements, with perhaps the most famous being the cover for Pink
Floyd's
The Dark Side of the Moon
.
The subversive political artwork
of Banksy (pseudonym of the renowned English graffiti artist whose identity
is concealed) can be found on streets, walls and buildings all over the world,
and has also featured in TV shows.
Arts institutions include the Royal College
of Art, Royal
Society of Arts, New English Art Club, Slade School of
Art, Royal Academy, and the Tate Gallery (founded as the National Gallery
of British Art).
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