Fine Arts

Art form for aesthetics painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, drama, dancing. Today: painting, sculpture, collage, installation, calligraphy, music, dance, theatre, architecture, photography, conceptual art, printmaking

The Beginning

The Beginning
Celtic decorative style survived Protestant Reformation distructive Artists imported from Europe Tradition of marine art

Early 18th century

Sir James Thornhill-baroque painter William Hogarth-moralistic scenes John Wootton-battle scenes Silversmithing manufacture of silk

Late 18th century

The classical age Sir Joshua Reynolds,Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce Society of Artists scenes from Shakespeare, illustrations Comic watercolors-Thomas Rowlandson Political caricature Porcelain factories

19th century and the Romantics

Romantic movement Radical period Influence on the Impressionists

Victorian Art
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood religious, literary, and genre subjects Regection of Industrialized England

20th century
Impressionism-foreign influence Vorticism-Modernist artists Bloomsbury Group Camden Town Group-Impressionism, PostImpressionism Pastoral subjects Euston Road School-progressive realists Atelier 17 studio in Paris The "London School" of figurative painters Independent Group- reaction to abstract expressionism precursor to the Pop Art

Fine Arts
Is a main street galery in Ledbury, Herefordshire Independent company Keep the galery diverse Original paintings by living artists

Mat Barber Kennedy RI

Studied architecure Became a professional artist Architectural award at the Royal Institute Personal techniques of watercolor
and collage

Mike Bernard RI
collage and acrylics Concentrat es on the effects of light

Ann Blockley SWA

Her pictures are evocative, atmospheric and intuitive Inspired by flowers, landscapes, animals uses watercolor in a loose and flowing style.

Birtwhistle, David
Traveled in Italy where he sold his first drawings his watercolors have been reproduced as cards and calendars

Carrington, Carrolleannea
inspirations are driven from the world around her, the African light, the dust of the plains and the smell of the wild pencil drawings

Roger Dellar RI ROI PS

self - taught professional working with a particular interest in marine subjects, people, light teaches art

Keith Fulford

influenced by cinematic imagery natural affection for city life, by the coast and in the landscape.

Colin Kent RI

was born in London studied painting and architecture was elected a member of the Royal Institute in 1971 sense of isolation without loneliness or melancholy

Leo McDowell RI
interiors, figurative and still-life paintings abstraction and figurative representation member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Raphael Sagage
Haiti fascinated by colors, patterns, shapes and textures guided by his paintbrush cubist characteristics

Christine Taherian SWA

was born in Cardiff impressionism using Oil, Acrylic and Mixed Media special moments of life build up the rest of the picture

Richard Whyley

was born in Leicester self taught gift shops gallery restaurant

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