Art of the United Kingdom

Art of the United Kingdom refers to the artistic works associated with the United Kingdom and its peoples since its formation in 1707.^[1] (For details about art in the individual countries of the United Kingdom, including prior to 1707, see English art, Irish art, Scottish art, Welsh art.)

Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

The administrative geography of the United Kingdom is complex, multi-layered and non-uniform. The United Kingdom, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe, consists of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. For local government in the United Kingdom, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each have their own system of administrative and geographic demarcation. Consequently, there is "no common stratum of administrative unit encompassing the United Kingdom".^[1]

Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born, and spent most of his life, in France. Sisley is generally recognized as the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs.An Oak Tree is an iconic^[1] conceptual artwork created by Michael Craig-Martin RA in 1973. The work consists of a glass of water on a glass shelf and is displayed with an accompanying text,^[2]^[3] which states that the work is a fully grown oak tree which looks like a glass of water.^[4] Craig-Martin considered "the work of art in such a way as to reveal its single basic and essential element, belief that is the confident faith of the artist in his capacity to speak and the willing faith of the viewer in accepting what he has to say".^[3]

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066.^[1] The Benedictine monk, Bede, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:^[2]Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, particularly from the time of King Alfred (871-899), when there was a revival of English culture after the end of the Viking invasions, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, when the move to the Romanesque style becomes complete. Prior to King Alfred the Migration period style based on that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent is seen to superb effect in the metalwork and jewellery from Sutton Hoo (early 7th century).Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066.^[1] The Benedictine monk, Bede, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:^[2]