Britart

/ ˈbrɪtˌɑːt /

noun

1. a movement in modern British art beginning in the late 1980s, often conceptual or using controversial materials, including such artists as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread

Word History and Origins

Origin of Britart¹

C20: Brit short for British

Example Sentences

To coincide with her Hong Kong exhibition, a magazine commissioned her ex-boyfriend Mat Collishaw to photograph her, but then turned down the results as they didn’t look like the “Mad Tracey from Margate” of the Britart years.

From The Guardian

Related: Sex, psychos and sharks: did Britart change the world?

From The Guardian

By the late 1980s, while her contemporaries at Goldsmiths were fomenting a Britart revolution, Ray had established herself at a gallery in Drury Lane doing copies of Renoir, Monet, Caravaggio, Stubbs, Gauguin and Modigliani.

From The Guardian

They include Sarah Lucas, the former bad girl of Britart who is now, perhaps of all her peers, most frequently named by younger artists as an influence.

From The Guardian

Photograph: Ben Westoby Tracey Emin's first big show in her old home Margate must surely feel like a milestone for Britart's original bad girl.

From The Guardian