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Article: The art of modern living: Peter Furtado previews a show of the British response to the Post-Impressionist view of modern life, at Tate Britain.(FRONTLINE)
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While painters across the Channel were exploring a type of modern art that experimented as much with formal concerns as with the subject matter of modern life, in London the priorities of artists were reversed. A leading art group before the First World War led by Walter Sickert produced a powerful portrait of a nation in transition as London, and Britain as a whole, responding to an age when the horse-drawn carriage was being replaced with the motor-car, and one that saw the development of garden cities like Letchworth. Their distinctively British take on avantegarde aesthetics may seem relatively conservative by comparison with the work of contemporaries such as Duchamp and ...
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