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John Bratby (British, 1928-1992)
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John Bratby
Interior with Monopoly Board 1957
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John Bratby
Jean and Table Top with Pineapple 1955
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John Bratby was a leading member of the ‘Kitchen Sink School’, an expressionist group of the 1950s whose named derived from a painting by Bratby of a sink. Their art depicted domestic scenes, often with an emphasis on the seemingly banal. His ‘Kitchen Sink’ contemporaries included Derrick Greaves (1927- ), Edward Middleditch (1923-1987) and Jack Smith (1928- ). Berger wrote that, “Bratby paints as though he had only one more day to live. He paints a packet of cornflakes on a littered kitchen table as though it were part of the Last Supper”. Edward Middleditch further explained the philosophy of the ‘Kitchen Sink School’ when he stated that, “The point is that we paint what we see around us. But we try to give it a new vision”. |
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