Young British Artists or YBAs (also Brit artists

and BritArt) is the name given to a group of

conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the UK

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Abigail lane - 5 Watt Moon, a photolithograph image derived from her film of the same name.

Angela Bulloch - a reference to Marcel Du champ's installation Sixteen Miles of String, shown at the Surrealist exhibition of 1942 in New York.To the Power of 4.  

Angus Fairhurst -"Low Expectations, Lower Expectations, Lowest Expectations“; "Fainter and Fainter“; "The Missing Link“; "Underdone/Overdone“ Things that don´t work properly, things that never stop

Anya Gallaccio -Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, After the Gold Rush. Fascinated that wine, like art, "is a living thing, and it's unpredictable.

Banksy -"Space Girl and Bird" went for  £288,000  controversial Israeli security wall. Among the images he stenciled on to the Palestine side of the West Bank barrier were of children digging a hole through the wall, and of a ladder going over the top.

Chapman Jake and Dinos - Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, De-Sublimated Libidinal Model (Enlarged x 1000) - (life size fibreglass mannequins of children with genital organs of both sexes attached to their faces)

Chris Ofili - The Holy Virgin Mary (an African Madonna accessorized by clumps of elephant dung and cutout genitals from pornographic magazines)

Christine Borland -Bullet Proof Breath (2001), a glass bronchial tree with spider-silk wrapped branches.

Damien Hirst - Away from the Flock (a single lamb suspended in formaldehyde in a tank)  - "Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (a giant shark suspended in formaldehyde in a tank)

Fiona Banner -The Nam, a 1,000-page book containing a continuous transcription of six Vietnam war films - Apocalypse Now, Born On The Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill and Platoon.

Fiona Rae - Hong Kong Garden is a beautiful show of large canvases covered in symbols, floral patterns, 70s psychedelic letters, digitized numbers, splattered paint and loose blurs of colour.

Gary Hume - Begging For It (large, colourful paintings including people and flowers using household gloss paints)

Gavin Turk - Pop (a waxwork life size model of himself dressed as Sid Vicious)

Richard Patterson - Blue Minotaur (one of a series of close-up paintings of a plastic toy Minotaur)

Gillian Wearing - Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say (Wearing asked strangers to write down anything and took photographs of them)

Ian Davenport -He covered a whole wall of Tate Britain with hypnotic lines of rainbow hues for the Days Like These exhibition, The Southwark painting is typical

Jason Martin - ''Cha-Cha'' and ''Samba'' have a lot of wave action.

Jenny Saville - Propped (a large-scale self portrait nude oil painting)

Liam Gillick -His design, entitled The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It? They'll Call it the Tube) shows the words of the date of the last day before the Underground opened, written in twelve sets of coloured letters symbolising the twelve rail lines.

Marc Quinn - Self (a self portrait made of eight pints of the artist's own blood, frozen)

Marcus Harvey - Myra (an infamous child murderer, Myra Hindley, painted using children's handprints)

Mark Francis - Thallophyte (1999;2000.) black dots like beads on a cord swirl around a painterly red ground.

Martin Maloney -We Are Family, Equal Opportunities and Community Association, and they are loosely based on photographs from newspapers and magazines.

Matt Collishaw -close-up photograph of a bloody head wound called ''Bullet Hole.''

Meredith Vula -women in Turkish baths, and a series showing women standing and moving beneath the surface of water.

Michael Landy -Nourishment continues with this theme, though in a rather different way; one which reflects particularly on Break Down.

Rachel Whiteread - Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) (the space beneath one hundred chairs, cast in many colours of translucent resin) and "Ghost" a cast of the interior of a whole room.

Ron Mueck - Dead Dad ( a two thirds scale but beautifully accurate model of his naked dead father)

Sam Taylor-Wood - Five Revolutionary Seconds (peopled interiors are photographed in five seconds by a special rotating camera that registers a 360-degree view in one continuous take)

Sarah Lucas - Sod You Gits and Au Naturel (two oranges and a cucumber propped on a stained mattress)

Simon Callery -Spy, an installation exhibited at the British Council  

Tacita Dean - In works such as Bubble House (1999) and Sound Mirrors (1999), we are shown buildings and places that are charged with a meaning that we cannot fully comprehend, often depicting a failed or abandoned vision.

Tracey Emin - Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, 1963-95 (a small tent with the names of Emin's bedmates stitched onto it, which was destroyed in a fire that

engulfed the Momart Warehouse in which it was stored)

Young British Artists or YBAs  also Brit artists and Britart  a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists derived from the Sensation Saatchi Gallery Exhibition.

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How to Choose a Painting.

There is massive information in books and in the net about how to choose a painting.
According to my experience, there are two kind of art buyers:
The emotional ones, those who suddenly fall in love or feel an inexplicable impact by a painting. They buy by intuition and passion. They are not worried at all about the location at home and colour matches with their furniture. Sometimes they simply leave the painting against a wall while waiting for the inspiration about the final placement.
If you are concerned about the colours of your room, the armchairs or the curtains and their possible combination with a painting, you belong to the second group of buyers, a lot more rational and less interested in art. Any decoration magazine will provide you directions on choosing a painting that matches with the colour of your curtains.

If you can afford it buy originals where you can. The up and coming artists works are very well priced. Try local art shows, avoid art galleries the price is hiked to pay for there posh galleries. You can access the artists through Google and contact them direct. Or try www.artsability.co.uk.

Buy what you like! don't give houseroom to something that someone else thinks you should buy.

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