Camden Town Group

The Camden Town Group is a group of English Post-Impressionists who met in the years between 1911 and 1913 in the studio of the painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town in London.

History

Founded in 1908, the art critic Frank Rutter, the Allied Artists Association ( AAA). She was inspired by the artist groups irrespective of the Royal Academy and the French Salon des Independants. Many of the artists who joined forces to Camden Town Group, exhibited their works there.

The members of the Camden Art Group included Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Spencer Frederick Gore, Lucien Pissarro ( the son of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro ), Wyndham Lewis, Walter Bayes, JB Manson, Robert Bevan, Augustus John, Henry Lamb and Charles Ginner.

Among the influences of the group were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, whose work is clearly reflected in the work of the entire group. Her portrayal of London before and during the First World War is both of historical and artistic interest.

The picture in the cinema of Malcolm Drummond was special attention because of its claustrophobic atmosphere. It forms an interesting counterpart to the work of Sickert, who painted many raudyhafte Music Hall scenes, including the Gallery of the Old Mogul, where he also represented the film audience. Sickert's Ennui of 1914 is often regarded as the masterpiece of this group with his portrayal of boredom and apathy in the style of Flaubert and others.

The group organized an exhibition of Cubist and Post-Impressionist painting.

Exhibitions