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David Sylvester

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David Sylvester CBE (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator. [1]

32 relations: Alberto Giacometti, Anthony d'Offay, Art critic, Art of the United Kingdom, Arts Council of Great Britain, BBC Radio 3, British Jews, Cecily Brown, Christopher Frayling, Francis Bacon (artist), Golden Lion, Hayward Gallery, Henry Moore, Joan Miró, John Bratby, Ken Adam, Kitchen sink realism, Lucian Freud, Nicholas Serota, Order of the British Empire, Philip French, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pop art, Richard Hamilton (artist), Serpentine Galleries, Shena Mackay, Tate, The Guardian, Tribune (magazine), University College School, Venice Biennale, Young Turks (disambiguation).

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

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Anthony d'Offay

Georges Anthony d'Offay (born January 1940) is a British art dealer, collector and curator.

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Art critic

An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting and evaluating art.

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Art of the United Kingdom

The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompass English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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British Jews

British Jews (often referred to collectively as Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are ethnically and/or religiously Jewish.

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Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter.

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Christopher Frayling

Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery.

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival.

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Hayward Gallery

The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

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John Bratby

John Randall Bratby RA (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992) was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s.

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Ken Adam

Sir Kenneth Hugo Adam, (born Klaus Hugo Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove.

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Kitchen sink realism

Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film, and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.

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Nicholas Serota

Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, (born 27 April 1946) was director of the Tate art museums and galleries from 1988 to 2017.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Philip French

Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and former radio producer.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Richard Hamilton (artist)

Richard William Hamilton CH (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist.

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Serpentine Galleries

The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London.

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Shena Mackay

Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944), is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tribune (magazine)

Tribune was a democratic socialist fortnightly magazine, founded in 1937 and published in London.

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University College School

University College School, generally known as UCS Hampstead, is an independent day school in Frognal, northwest London, England.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Young Turks (disambiguation)

Young Turks was a nationalist reform movement during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, and responsible for the Armenian Genocide.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sylvester

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