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The gallery collection contains paintings, watercolours and decorative historical objects, including Newcastle silver. [3] In the early 1880s, Newcastle was a major glass producer in the world and enamelled glasses by William Beilby [ 4 ] are on view along with ceramics (including Maling pottery ), and diverse contemporary works by emerging UK ...
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors; Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture; Elsie Henderson (1880–1967) – English painter and sculptor; Harry Morley (1881–1943) – English painter
In 2019, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art was 50 years old, being the direct descendant of 'Bookshop Gallery' founded in 1969 and its successor Ceolfrith Arts Centre, later Northern Centre for Contemporary Art. During its fifty years it has given UK premieres to artists from Sean Scully to Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen, from Sam ...
It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display.
English art is the body of visual arts made in England.England has Europe's earliest and northernmost ice-age cave art. [1] Prehistoric art in England largely corresponds with art made elsewhere in contemporary Britain, but early medieval Anglo-Saxon art saw the development of a distinctly English style, [2] and English art continued thereafter to have a distinct character.
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Recently, graffiti and street art have played a key role in contemporary wall painting. Such graffiti/street artists as Keith Haring , Shepard Fairey , Above , Mint&Serf, Futura 2000 , Os Gemeos , and Faile among others have successfully transcended their street art aesthetic beyond the walls of urban landscape and onto walls of private and ...