Slade School of Fine Art

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The Slade School of Fine Art, 1905

The Slade School of Fine Art in London ( England ) is the art school of University College London . The Slade School on Gower Street in Bloomsbury is not only one of the most important British art schools, but is also internationally recognized as a leading training institution for artists.

history

The school was founded in 1871 with funds from the wealthy British lawyer and art collector Felix Slade and was decisively shaped by the first professor Edward Poynter . Poynter introduced the French system of art education.

Well-known students and professors

Michael Andrews , painter Don Bachardy , painter and draftsman Phyllida Barlow , contemporary artist Zabelle C. Boyajian , author and painter Dorothy Brett , painter Cecily Brown , painter Laura Bruce , artist Dora Carrington , artist Ralph Chubb , poet, printer and painter Bernard Cohen , painter Harold Cohen , painter Sir William Coldstream , painter Ithell Colquhoun , painter and artist Martin Creed , artist Jessica Dismorr , painter William Dobell , painter and sculptor Nicholas Georgiadis , painter, costume and set designer Phyllis Gardner , painter and woodcut artist Mark Gertler , painter Douglas Gordon , artist Antony Gormley , sculptor Thomas Cooper Gotch , painter Eileen Gray , interior decorator and designer Richard Hamilton , painter and collage artist George Harcourt , genre and portrait painter Mona Hatoum performance artist Patrick Heron , painter Roger Hilton , painter Derek Jarman , artist, writer and film director Augustus John , painter Christopher Le Brun , engraver Neville Lewis , painter

Wyndham Lewis , writer and painter Martin Liebscher , photo artist Simon Martin , film director Moina Mathers , painter, occultist and artist Thomas Corsan Morton , painter Paul Nash , painter Ben Nicholson , painter Laura Norder , painter, psychogeography aficionado and punk William Orpen , painter Eduardo Paolozzi , sculptor and artist Nigel Phelps , film architect Mary Quinn Sullivan , Co-Founder of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Alfred William Rich , landscape and watercolor painter John Richardson , art historian Paula Rego , painter, illustrator and wood carver William Roberts Isaac Rosenberg , war poet Sir William Rothenstein , painter Sir Matthew Smith , painter Stanley Spencer , painter William Strang , painter and etcher Albert Chevallier Tayler , painter Afewerk Tekle , artist William Tillyer , artist William Turnbull , sculptor Michael Tyzack , painter Leon Underwood , painter and sculptor Edward Wadsworth , artist Aubrey Waterfield , painter Brian Wildsmith , painter and children's book illustrator Rachel Whiteread , artist and sculptor

Web links

• official website

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '30 "  N , 0 ° 8' 3.4"  W.