As seen: Modern British painting and visual experience

Pepperell, Robert; Hughes, Louise

Abstract

During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including subjective curvature, double vision and the body seen from the first person viewpoint. In doing so they broke with hundreds of years of pictorial convention, yet their experiments remain largely unrecognised. The story of this radical rethinking of the rules of pictorial representation turns out to be wide ranging and complex. This article discusses the work of six artists who made particularly significant contributions: Ivon Hitchens, Evan Walters, William Coldstream, Robert Medley, Lawrence Gowing and Richard Hamilton.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2015
• Publication Date: May 1, 2015
• Journal: Tate Papers
• Print ISSN: 1753-9854
• Publisher: Tate Research
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: Spring
• Issue: 23
• Keywords: vision, visual perception, modern British art, Ivon Hitchens, Evan Walters, William Coldstream, Robert Medley, Lawrence Gowing, Richard Hamilton, painting, perspective, space, pictorial space
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/834773
• Publisher URL: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/23/as-seen-modern-british-painting-and-visual-experience