kitchen sink drama
DESCRIPTION
Kitchen Sink Drama. John Randall Bratby Bratby believed his paintings were rooted in general fifties attitudes and outlooks, being ‘’ introvert , grim, khaki in colour , often opposed to prettiness , and dedicated to portraying a stark, raw, ugly reality. ’’. Basin with Green Soap. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Kitchen Sink Drama
O John Randall Bratby
Bratby believed his paintings were rooted in general fifties attitudes and outlooks, being ‘’introvert, grim, khaki in colour, often opposed to prettiness, and dedicated to portraying a stark, raw, ugly reality.’’
Basin with Green Soap
Kitchen
Kitchen II
Characteristics
O It advances a social message or ideology (which is often leftist)O Settings were middle-classO Bringing social inequality of working
class to the stageO Characters’ dissatisfaction with the
systemO The language is colloquial and slang
Further Sources
Paintings of BratbyO http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpainti
ngs/artists/john-randall-bratby Conversations with Arnold WeskerO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m
CHb5PKeUoQ
QuestionKitchen sink dramas can be rather depressing and unrelentingly (rigidly) negative, so WHAT IS THEIR VALUE?