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Article: The seamy side of London town
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2008
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Visual arts
MODERN PAINTERS: THE CAMDEN TOWN GROUP Tate Britain LONDON ****
Call it a fairly quiet revolution. In 1911, a group of male
painters - Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond, Spencer
Gore and others - came together in London to define what looks, with
hindsight, like a pragmatic English response to continental
developments in painting - to Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Van Gogh,
Gauguin and others.
A number of this so-called Camden Town group lived in north
London, and the paintings they made, all within the realist,
figurative tradition, helped to document, and redefine, the nature
of the metropolis itself. The group exhibited together for a brief
period - about 18 ...