Access Art - Paintings, sculpture and Ceramics

Over to You

Here are pictures of four works from the Hull University Art Collection.

What do you notice about them?
Can you find any links between the works?
What similarities and differences strike you about the style of the work?
What subjects have the artists chosen to represent?
Do you think any of these artists were influenced by other famous artists?

Now think about your own experience. What do you want to portray when you create a work of art? What guides you? What – or who – influences your style?

Many of the artists in the Collection knew each other and worked together. Consequently they sometimes influenced each others’ work, so when you look at the paintings you may see similarities in style and content.

Sickert and the Fitzroy Group

Walter Sickert
Church at Dieppe (L'Eglise du Rollet, Dieppe) c.1900

Church at Dieppe (L'Eglise du Rollet, Dieppe) c.1900

When Walter Sickert returned to London from France in 1905, his Fitzroy Street studio became a meeting place for talented younger artists. In 1907 rooms were rented to exhibit and sell their works. One reason for the formation of the group was that existing art associations were too conservative.

Harold Gilman and the London Group

Harold Gilman
Orchard c. 1916

Orchard c. 1916

In 1913, the London Group brought together progressive English painters and sculptors like Wyndham Lewis, C.R.W. Nevinson and Jacob Epstein. The first president of the group was Harold Gilman who had been a founder member of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town Groups. His work was influenced by the rich colouring of Gauguin and Van Gogh.

The Bloomsbury Group

Duncan Grant
Still Life with Bust of Vanessa Bell c. 1939

Still Life with Bust of Vanessa Bell c. 1939

This was a group of artists, writers and intellectuals who gathered at the home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephen in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum in London. The members of the group believed they were very progressive in their attitudes to politics, religion and personal lives. The "Bloomsberries" included writers E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, and the painters Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington.

Malcolm Drummond
Three Men, 19 Fitzroy Street c. 1913-14

Three Men, 19 Fitzroy Street c. 1913-14

Malcolm Drummond's Three Men,19 Fitzroy Street (c.1913/14) is a study for a painting showing some of these artists in the group's studio.