Tuesday 11 December 2007

Young British Artists (YBA)

Sarah Lucas
The Kiss, 2003
Au Naturel, 1994

Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, 1996


Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab 1992


Tracy Emin


The art work of Tracy Emin, Book cover Thames and Hudson




The Bed, 1999, Mixed Media




Tracey Emin, The New Black, 2002. Appliqué blanket.


Tracy Emin-Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995



Tracey EminHellter Fucking Skelter, 2001*Appliqué blanket




Damien Hirst



The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)










Valium, 2000

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, 2000

Young British Artists or YBAs (also Brit artists and Britart) is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. The term Young British Artists is derived from shows of that name staged at the Saatchi Gallery from 1992 onwards, which brought the artists to fame. It has become an historic term, as most of the YBAs are now in their forties. They are noted for "shock tactics", use of throwaway materials and wild-living, and are (or were) associated with the Hoxton area of East London. They achieved considerable media coverage and dominated British art during the 1990s.