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Article: Palette of progress ; The Camden Town Group of artists vibrantly painted London at a time of rapid change. By Philippa Stockley
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2008
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THREE years before the outbreak of the First World War, in 1911,
the famous 47-year-old painter Walter Sickert got together with 15
younger London artists at dinner one night and created the Camden
Town Group. Sickert was a figurative, realistic painter, living in
Mornington Crescent, who had recently returned home after years
spent in Paris. There he had watched art's dramatic change at the
turn of the century, seen Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Degas and, in a
different way, Gauguin paint real life throwing out stuffy history
paintings and allegories in favour of interiors, street scenes and
vibrant portraits in believable settings.