Britain is a country with a very strong artistic atmosphere, it has a rich artistic tradition and history, from ancient times to the present, it has also given birth to many outstanding artists, leaving a lot of far-reaching works, so who are the most famous artists in the UK? What are the famous British art celebrities? Rank123.com introduces you to the top ten great British artists.
1. Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on April 23, 1775 in London, England, is one of the famous artists who graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts, and is also a representative of the British academic painters, the most outstanding landscape painter in the history of Western art, once famous for depicting the subtle relationship between light and air, this painter is very good at depicting fires, shipwrecks, sunlight, storms and other natural phenomena and natural disasters, is considered to be one of the most famous and skilled artists in Britain.
2. Mark Wollinger
Born in 1959 in Essex, England, Mark Wallinger is a well-known British artist whose work reflects his strong influence on the British left-wing intellectual tradition, and was awarded a Henry Moore Scholarship at the British School in Rome in 1998.
3. William Hogarth
This is known as the father of British painting is known as the father of British painting, the British famous painter, printmaker, satirist and the pioneer of European comic strips, it has a high reputation in Europe, his creative themes are taken from real life, and the scope of works is wide, there are "fashionable marriage", "the prodigal son looks back", "shrimp girl", "analysis of beauty" and other representative works.
4. Clive Bell
Clive Bell is a British formalist aesthete born in 1881 and a theoretical spokesperson of contemporary Western formalist art, with many representative works such as "Art", "Painting since Cézanne", "Introduction to French Painting", and "Milestones of 19th-Century Painting".
5. Frederick Layton
Born on December 3, 1830, Frederick Clayton is an impressionist and post-impressionist artist who graduated from the Roman Academy of Arts, and has painted a large number of works that show the beauty and style of classical female figures, including "Hot June", "Icarus and Daedalus", "Music Lesson" and other representative works, and has now become one of the most famous painters in Britain.
6. Thomas Gainsborough
Born on May 14, 1727 in Suffolk, England, Thomas Gainsborough was a famous 18th-century English portraitist and landscape painter. He was known for his incredible speed of painting, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts, won the favor of the royal family, and his works also had a profound impact on later generations.
7. Richard Hamilton
Born in 1922, Richard Hamilton, known as the father of Pop Art, is one of the world's most influential contemporary artists, a leading figure in Pop Art, and a well-known figure in the UK
8. Chaplin
Chaplin was born in April 1889 in London, England, is a British film and television actor, director, screenwriter, Belin with his expressions and movements to bring American silent film to the highest peak, with "Making a Living", "City Lights", "Stage Career" and other representative works, won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award Lifetime Achievement Award, Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion Award and Academy Award Honorable Mention and many other honors.
9. David Hockney
David Hockney is a British artist and international art master, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art and achieved great success at a young age. It is not uncommon for Western artists to depict female nudes, but David Hockney's tireless repeated depictions of male nudes were undoubtedly a social hotspot in the 60s of the last century, and the artist became famous for this series of paintings.
10. Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born in England and was a well-known essayist and philosopher of his time. He was a major politician for many years, and although he devoted much of his time and energy to his political career, he is included in this book only because of his philosophical works. Works such as "New Tools", "Academic Progress", and "New Onishi Island" are all very representative.