Презентація "British Modern Painting"

MODERN PAINTING

MODERN PAINTINGEnglish art critics mark the astonishing variety of artistic directions and trends that appear and develop in modern painting. The history of British painting in the first decade of the 20th century is marked by a slow absorption of impressionist principles of light and colour.

(1860-1942)Walter Richard Sickert

He developed a personal version of Impressionism, favouring sombre colouration. Following Degas' advice, Sickert painted in the studio, working from drawings and memory as an escape from "the tyranny of nature".  Sickert's earliest major works, dating from the late 1880s, were portrayals of scenes in London music halls, often depicted from complex and ambiguous points of view, so that the spatial relationship between the audience, performer and orchestra becomes confused, as figures gesture into space and others are reflected in mirrors.

His pictures include a series of groups – usually a man/woman in bedrooms or little front parlous. Some psychological relationship between them is always implied, but the story line always remains oblique.

« Ennui» (Boredom)An old man sitting at the table and a fat woman standing behind him.

From 1895 Sickert began to write in Venice and he painted views of the city during his stay there. He produced innumerable versions of his favourite scenes:

The Façade of St Jacques (1902)

the Facade of St Mark

In Venice he also painted some very fine informal studies of Venetian women.

Graham Sutherland(1903 – 1980)

Sutherland's early prints of pastoral subjects show the influence of Samuel Palmer, largely mediated by the older etcher, F. L. Griggs. He did not begin to paint in earnest until he was in his 30s, following the collapse of the print market in 1930 due to the Great Depression. 

He began to paint in 1931 and exhibited 2 oils in the international surrealist exhibition.

Welsh Landscape with Roads (1936) shows his response to nature.

IN 1946 HE PAINTED «cr. UCIFIXION» FOR st mathew`s , northampton.

portrait of William Somerset Maugham

portrait of Sir Winston Churchill ,which was burned by his wife.

Ben Nicholson(1894 – 1982)

He was the chief representative of British constructivism,  landscape and still-life.

Still – lifes, a group of major paintings composed of balanced rectangles and circles of strong, unmodulated colours. His masterpieces:

Francis Bacon(1909 – 1992)

He was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.

He employed the device of distortion in his figurative and portrait works.

Self Portrait 1973