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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