BritArt (1992-present): all media. BritArt refers to the group of young artists based in the United Kingdom. They received their name from the Saatchi Gallery exhibitions starting in 1992 which originally brought them to fame.
"Britart" stars included in the show included Jenny Saville, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Gillian Wearing and Tracey Emin.
A decade of Britart in the nineties changed all that. A new factor was introduced into a delicately balanced art eco-system, namely an advertising mogul, whose massive financial, ...
"Young British Artists" starting in 1992, when a noted exhibit was Damien Hirst's "shark" (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living), which became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s,[4] and the symbol of Britart ...
Post-Minimalism (1971 on) New Subjectivity (1970s) London School (1970s) Graffiti Art (1970s on) Transavanguardia (1979 on) Neo-Expressionism (1980 on) Britart: YBAs (1980s on) Neo-Pop (late 1980s on) Stuckism (1999 on) ...
Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). ... My Bed is a work by the British artist Tracey Emin. ...
See also: Painting, Portrait, Conceptual, Movement, School
 
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