Art after 1950 - Landscape Tradition
Art historian, John Francis presents a wide ranging survey starts in 1749 with Gainsborough’s ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’. Turner and Constable could be said to portray our national identity through images of peace and plenty while sometimes ignoring unrest and poverty in rural Britain. Later, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash used landscape as a search for inner knowledge, fantasy and religious values. The photography of Humphrey Spender and Bert Hardy documented the modern urban landscape of the Thirties. More recently, Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long chose to move from the studio and use the physical material of the landscape itself.
Time: 10:30 BST
