Elev: Nițu Iuliana – Lucia

Clasa: a XII-a F
Profesor coordonator: Stoian Carmen Cezarina
 I chose to talk about visual arts, because we are permanently surrounded by them. Not exclusively
limited to museums, art can be found everywhere: in commercial galleries, corporate lobbies and offices,
places of worship and private homes. It is displayed in public spaces, from subway stations and bus stops to
public plazas and civic buildings such as libraries, performing arts centers and city halls. Everywhere we find
art, it is telling us something and supporting a point of view.

The purpose of this paper is to present the evolution of art in the United Kingdom, starting with the 18th
century and the best known artists of those times. Since the subject is vast and complex, I will be focusing
mainly on painting, a great storyteller and historian of the world, but this paper approaches themes such as
ARGUMENT

sculpture and graffiti painting as well. As a type of artistic activity, the visual arts are among the phenomena
of social consciousness. At all stages of man’s historical development, they have occupied an important place
in the spiritual assimilation of reality, in ideological life and in the social struggle. Throughout time, artists
have created paintings that act as a social commentary and can even be an inciter of social change. Art is a
fantastic medium to bring issues to light in a society, encouraging discussion and conversations and even
cross-cultural understanding.

Throughout history, art has undoubtedly had a major importance in capturing and even influencing the
evolution of England.
 ROMANTICISM AND THE SUBLIME IN ART
Joseph Mallord William Turner
John Constable

MODERNISM
Henry Moore

EXPRESSIONISM
Francis Bacon
CONTENTS

Lucian Freud

CONTEMPORARY ART
David Hockney
Banksy

CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. M.William Turner

(1775 – 1851)

British Painter

Movements and Styles

Romanticism, Realism, The Turner was a prolific, yet eccentric and

reclusive artist working in oils, watercolors and
Sublime in Art, British Art prints. Turner's application of color in rapid
strokes created an impastoed and dynamic surface
that earned him the epithet "the painter of light".
 For the last two years I have been running after pictures and
seeking the truth at second hand. I have not endeavored to
represent nature with the same elevation of mind with which I set

John Constable out, but have rather tried to make my performances look like the
work of other men. The great vice of the present day is bravura, an
(1776 – 1837) attempt to do something beyond the truth.

British Painter

Movements and Styles

Romanticism, The Sublime in Art,

Landscape Painters, British Art

 Modernism first began in Britain soon after the end
Henry Moore of the First World War, with artists developing
increasingly abstract work.

(1898 – 1986)

British Sculptor

Movements and Styles

Surrealism, Biomorphism,

Surrealist Sculpture, Primitivism

Henry Moore emerged after World War II as Britain's leading
in Art, Direct Carving, British Art
sculptor, promoted by the Festival of Britain.
"It was like a huge city in the bowels of the earth. When I
first saw it... I saw hundreds of Henry Moore figures
stretched along the platform."

described as
described as aa latter
latter day
day Athena,
Athena,
the Greek
the Greek goddess
goddess of of wisdom
wisdom
 Francis Bacon

(1909 – 1992)
Irish Painter

At a time when many lost faith in painting, Bacon

maintained his belief in the importance of the medium,
saying of his own working that his own pictures
"deserve either the National Gallery or the dustbin, with
nothing in between".
Movements and Styles

School of London,

Expressionism, British Art

 Lucian Freud

(1922 – 2011)
British Painter

Movements and Styles

School of London, Expressionism,

British Art
 David Hockney
(1937 - present)

British-American Painter

Movements and Styles

"I love the idea first of all of painting like
Pop Art, British Pop Art, School of Leonardo, all his studies of water, swirling
London, Nouveau Réalisme, British
things. And I loved the idea of painting this thing
Art
that lasts for two seconds: it takes me two weeks
to paint this event that lasts for two seconds."
 Banksy
British Graffiti Artist, Political

Activist and Film Director

Movements and Styles

Street and Graffiti Art, British Art

 Starting with the 18th century to the present day, art has had and continues to have as its
ultimate goal illustrating reality, in the smallest and most intriguing aspects, from good, innocence
and beauty to evil, decadence and grotesque. My inclination towards the artists presented is due, first
of all, to the popularity they enjoyed as renowned artists of Great Britain, then to their remarkable
masterpieces that hide entire stories and universes behind the brush strokes and colours.
We have seen the evolution of visual arts, from paintings in which artists stuck to dark, neutral
colours, that disguised the atmosphere of those times, during or after the war, to graffiti art and a
wider, much bolder range of colours, with the help of which contemporary artists communicate and
promote optimism and hope, although they portray the “ugly” in today’s world. Whilst the means of
representation and the techniques used have changed throughout time, the purpose has remained the
same: to approach current topics and existential issues, important for society and for the human being
CONCLUSION

and to transmit emotions, in an authentic and original manner.

To conclude, working on this paper has opened the door for me to the world of fine art, in which
I often found myself getting lost. It allowed me to dig deeper and broaden my knowledge not only on
established artists, but on creations that I considered, until now, simple pieces of art as well, when
there is, obviously, more to them. To bring an homage to the men I have presented, I will quote the
words of one of them, that do justice to their work:

“It doesn’t take much to become a successful artist – all you have to do is dedicate your entire
life to it.”
– Bansky
 The Art Story – https://www.theartstory.org/

TATE – https://www.tate.org.uk/
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Artsy – https://www.artsy.net/