The art of modern living: Peter Furtado previews a show of the British response to the Post-Impressionist view of modern life, at Tate Britain.(FRONTLINE)

History Today | February 1, 2008| | Copyright

While painters across the Channel were exploring a type of modern art that experimented as much with formal concerns as with the subject matter of modern life, in London the priorities of artists were reversed. A leading art group before the First World War led by Walter Sickert produced a powerful portrait of a nation in transition as London, and Britain as a whole, responding to an age when the horse-drawn carriage was being replaced with the motor-car, and one that saw the development of garden cities like Letchworth. Their distinctively British take on avantegarde ...

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