Modern British Art by Danny Pearson

By Danny Pearson

WOW proof! are particularly written for suffering readers. artwork could be a portray, a drawing, a sculpture, nearly whatever. it will probably grasp on a wall in a gallery or it could possibly stand on best of a hill. learn about a few of Britain's best-known sleek artists and be encouraged by way of a few of their remarkable works of art.

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He called these ‘joiners’. He discovered this method of working by accident. He did not like photographers using cameras with wide-angle lenses and he used to take many Polaroid photos of his home and stick them together. As he looked at his photos that were stuck together, he thought they looked like they were telling a story of movement, as if the viewer were walking around in the scene. What do you think? Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain’s most famous female artists. She creates sculptures that are usually casts of objects and spaces.

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One of her most famous works was called House. The piece was a large cast of the inside of a house. The cast was made from concrete and it showed the empty space that could be found in an average family home. She exhibited it on the exact spot in London on which the house had originally stood. This piece won her the Turner Prize but the local council still knocked the sculpture down to make way for new homes. Another one of her works, Embankment, filled the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. This time, she had taken casts of the insides of cardboard boxes.

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