Image of a city and British artists of the 1910s

Abstract

By the beginning of the twentieth century, London was the most industrially developed city in the world. But the genre of urban landscape and industrial motifs did not find a special response in the British art of that time. By the 1910s, the situation had changed, artists of different generations began to depict the streets of large cities, find stories in the work of factories and the appearance of industrial areas, and develop the genre of portraiture in an urban environment. This moment of the emergence and development of interest in urban subjects, as well as the evolution of the image of the city in the works of London artists of the 1910s, are shown in the article through the review of the artistic life of Great Britain (from genre scenes by W. Sickert to geometric abstractions by W. Lewis).