1. British art. XXI century.
Made by
Rogacheva M.

2. The position of the arts in Britain today may
be described as a mixture of public apathy
and private enthusiasm. People tend to be
individualistic, exploring emotions rather
than ideas.

3. Music
Since 1960s, British musicians had a great
influence on the development of music in
the modern, or “pop” style.

4. The Sugababes
 formed in 1998 in
London
 it always was trio
 Awards:
 Brit Awards
 Capital FM Awards
 National Music Award
 National Music Award
 etc.

5. Girls Aloud
 an English-Irish pop girl
group created in London
in 2002 through the ITV1
talent show Popstars
 the most successful
British product of the
many Popstars format
programmes"Most
Successful Reality TV
Group" (Guinness World
Records, 2007)
 the UK's biggest selling
girl group of the 21st
century

6. British soul: female singers
Joss Stone
•rose to fame in late 2003 Duffy
•possesses the vocal range of a •started career in 2008
contralto •debut album “Rockferry” was
•is known for her barefoot the best-selling album in the
performances and excellent vocal United Kingdom in 2008 with
quality 1.68 million copies sold
•became the youngest British •the first Welsh woman to
female singer to top the UK achieve number-one on the
Albums Chart in history to have UK Singles Chart since Bonnie
her first album at number one Tyler
Adele
•career have begun in 2006
•mentions in the Guinness
World Records
•is the first artist to sell more
than 3 million copies of an
album in a year in the UK
•the first living artist to
achieve the feat of having
two top-five hits in UK charts

7. Rock-music
Franz Ferdinand
The Darkness
Snow Patrol The Libertines

8. Amy Winehouse
 an English singer and
songwriter
 known for her deep
contralto vocals and her
eclectic mix of musical
genres
 the first British female to
win five Grammys,
including three of the "Big
Four
 was listed at number 26
on VH1's 100 Greatest
Women In Music

9. Literature
Reading is only slightly less popular as a
free-time activity than listening to music. The
vast majority of the books that are read in
Britain are not “serious” literature. Britain is
a home of what might be called
“middlebrow’ literature.

10. Josephine Cox
Danielle Steel

11. Joanne Rowling
 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone
 Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets
 Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
 Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire
 Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix
 Harry Potter and the Half-
Blood Prince
 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows

12. Cinema
Cinema is generally regarded as not quit
part of “the arts” at all – it is simply
entertainment.
Government gives much less financial help
to its film industry than other European
countries do.
Britain produces very few films, although
cinemagoing is a regular habit for a large
number of people than theatergoing.

13. Really successful British films

14. Theatres The Old Vic
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Royal Court

15. Opera and ballet
Royal Opera House English National Opera

16. Painting
Painting is not as widely popular as other
arts in Britain. Small art galleries, where
people might look at paintings with a view to
buying them, are rare. Nevertheless London
is one of the main centers of the rich art
collector`s world. The two major auction
houses of Sotheby`s and Christie`s are
world-famous.

17. Jack Vettriano

18. Alexander Millar

19. Derrick Fielding

20. Architecture
 International Style
 Brutalist architecture
 High-Tech architecture
 Postmodern architecture

21. Wales millennium centre

22. The Hepworth Wakefield

23. St Mary axe

24. Baltic centre for contemporary art