British painters and sculptors have made important contributions to world art. John Constable and J. M. W. Turner are the great British landscape painters of the early nineteenth century, both represented at the National Gallery. Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud are among the most influential figurative painters of the twentieth century. David Hockney is one of the most popular living British artists.
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Sculptors include Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth (modernist) and Antony Gormley, whose Angel of the North (1998) at Gateshead is one of the largest pieces of public sculpture in the country. The Tate galleries in London, Liverpool and St Ives — and the Turner Prize for contemporary art — are the institutional centres of British visual arts.
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