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John Bratby was a British painter and founder of kitchen sink realism. He painted gritty scenes of working class life in 1950s-60s England using harsh colors and depicting desperate faces in domestic settings. Bratby studied art and had early success with kitchen sink paintings that explored taboo subjects and poorer areas of England. He divorced in 1977 after a volatile relationship and continued painting portraits and cityscapes until his death in 1992. Kitchen sink realism focused on ordinary working cla

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Tímea Anita Tóth

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