John Bratby
Painting, Visual Artist
1928 – 1992
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Who was John Bratby?
John Randall Bratby RA was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s.
Born in Wimbledon, Bratby studied at Kingston College from 1948 to 1950, then at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1954. Three years after his graduation he became a tutor at the college. Bratby became famous for his adaptation of the impressionist realism of Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group towards a more aggressively expressionist style influenced by van Gogh and the Abstract Expressionists.
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- Born
- Jul 19, 1928
Wimbledon - Spouses
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Royal College of Art
- Kingston University
- Died
- Jul 20, 1992
Hastings
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on July 23, 2013
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