For all the world attention they get, British abstract expressionists might as well be painting on another planet. The British public might even suspect that it’s one of those things that isn’t done.

Almost since the days when Druidic warriors daubed themselves with woad, the notion has persisted that British painting is a barbarous and insular affair. By and large, the thesis is correct —but ...

The bold, colorful world of 1960s British pop art was dominated by male artists. However, one woman refused to stay in the ...

There is no shortage of 20th-century British artists who have made their name for pioneering a thoroughly modern approach to figurative painting at a time when abstraction was all the rage. Yet, while ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British-German artist Frank Auerbach, who was sent to England to escape Nazism and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of his age, has died aged 93.

Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract "A Century of Painters of the English School" by Richard and Samuel Redgrave, 1866 and revised in 1890, attempted a radical transformation of ...

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