It was a sensation, indeed, when the young British artists took over
the art scene in the 1990s. But what came before them? With works
from more than 100 artists, Blast to Freeze traces the epoch-making
art movements of an entire British century, from the outbreak of
World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union, beginning and ending
with a decided break from the traditional. In 1914 a group of young
British artists, the Vorticists, in their avant-garde journal Blast!,
propagated a style that blended influences from French cubism and
Italian futurism into an independent British modernism. In turn,
mavericks such as Henry Moore and Francis Bacon are unthinkable
without the British primitivists and surrealists of the 20s and 30s.
The specifically British brand of pop art began with the legendary
exhibitions of the Independent Group in the 50s, and in the 80s, new
British sculpture emerged, represented by important proponents such
as Tony Cragg and Antony Gormley. The YBAs, presented to the world in
the exhibition Freeze, jointly organized by Damien Hirst and friends
in the London Docklands in 1988, brings the survey to a close.
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