Exhibition 'A Very British Art Revolution' in Museum & Art Swindon
The first decades of the 20th century were a time of great social and political change in Britain – and it was no different in the art world. A Very British Art Revolution: Rebellion and Reaction in the Early 20th Century looks at how artists in Britain responded to these changes, and to the new creative ideas that were shifting how people made and experienced art across the whole of Europe.
This exhibition draws from the art collection at Museum & Art Swindon to demonstrate the impact of new art movements, new models of teaching art and collaborating, social change and the legacies of conflict.
A Very British Art Revolution includes work from the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; pioneers of abstraction Ivon Hitchens and Ben Nicholson; and radical responses to British land and townscapes by artists such as John Piper, Graham Sutherland, and Julian Trevelyan.
