ARTISTS
Defining British Art 1910 - 2000
Piano Nobile is pleased to present ninety years of British art. This exhibition reviews the major creative outbursts in twentieth-century Britain, with paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles made by four generations of pioneering artists 鈥� from Sickert at the fin de si猫cle to Grayson Perry at the twentieth century鈥檚 post-modern conclusion. Sculpture, painting and textiles from the 1910s by Eric Gill, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis provide an insight into Britain's first flush of avant-garde activity. In contrast to works of high modernism by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, crafted with austere, open-grained materials, the figurative work of post-war London painters like Auerbach, Freud, Kossoff and Uglow show renewed interest in the denotative, representational qualities of oil paint. Works exemplary of their type are exhibited here, many of which have not been publicly exhibited for decades, including a distinguished portrait from Cedric Morris鈥檚 period of European travel in the 1920s and an abstract painting by Graham Sutherland from the height of his fame after the Second World War.
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Piano Nobile is pleased to present ninety years of British art. This exhibition reviews the major creative outbursts in twentieth-century Britain, with paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles made by four generations of pioneering artists 鈥� from Sickert at the fin de si猫cle to Grayson Perry at the twentieth century鈥檚 post-modern conclusion. Sculpture, painting and textiles from the 1910s by Eric Gill, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis provide an insight into Britain's first flush of avant-garde activity. In contrast to works of high modernism by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, crafted with austere, open-grained materials, the figurative work of post-war London painters like Auerbach, Freud, Kossoff and Uglow show renewed interest in the denotative, representational qualities of oil paint. Works exemplary of their type are exhibited here, many of which have not been publicly exhibited for decades, including a distinguished portrait from Cedric Morris鈥檚 period of European travel in the 1920s and an abstract painting by Graham Sutherland from the height of his fame after the Second World War.
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