The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (203 page)

(1885–1978).
British painter, decorator, and designer. Grant was a cousin of the writer Lytton Strachey and a member of the
Bloomsbury Group
. He exhibited at the
New English Art Club
and with the
London Group
, and contributed to the second
Post-Impressionist
Exhibition in 1912. His work of this period shows that he was among the most advanced of British artists in responding to recent trends in French painting. From about 1913 he was also influenced by African sculpture and he was one of the pioneers of abstract art in Britain; in 1914 he made an
Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting
, which was meant to be unrolled while music by J. S. Bach was playing (this is now in the Tate Gallery, which has had a film made demonstrating the painting being unrolled in the desired fashion). Grant's later painting was generally much more traditional, and many critics consider that he was at his best as a designer. He was the most gifted of the designers who worked for
Fry's
Omega Workshops
, and after the Workshops closed in 1919 he collaborated much in interior decoration with Vanessa
Bell
(they lived together from 1916). His work included designs for textiles, pottery, stage scenery, and costumes.

 
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(1803–78).
Scottish painter. He was one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day and succeeded
Eastlake
as President of the
Royal Academy
in 1866. His best works are generally considered to be his smaller sporting
conversation pieces
.

 
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graphic art
.

Term current with several different meanings in the literature of the visual arts. In the context of the
fine arts
, it most usually refers to those arts that rely essentially on line or tone rather than colour—i.e. drawing and the various forms of engraving. Some writers, however, exclude drawing from this definition, so that the term ‘graphic art’ is used to cover the various processes by which prints are created. In another sense, the term—sometimes shortened to ‘graphics’—is used to cover the entire field of commercial printing, including text as well as illustrations.

 
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(
c.
1450–1518).
German sculptor and wood-carver, active mainly in Munich. He worked in an animated and expressive late
Gothic
style and was the leading sculptor of his day in south Bavaria, with a flourishing workshop and numerous pupils. His best-known works are the ten figures (originally sixteen) of morris dancers for the ballroom of the old town hall in Munich (Stadtmuseum, Munich, 1480). Grasser was also an architect and hydraulic engineer.

 
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(1699–1773).
French designer and engraver of book illustrations, active for much of his career in England. In London he became a friend of
Hogarth
and probably taught
Gainsborough
. He illustrated Gay's
Fables
, Shakespeare , and Dryden , and was one of the first artists to illustrate the novel, designing engravings for Richardson's
Pamela
(1742) and Fielding's
Tom Jones
(1750). Although not an artist of outstanding talent, he is important for helping to introduce the French
Rococo
style to England.

 
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Greaves , Derrick
.

See
KITCHEN SINK SCHOOL
.

 
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