Silver spoon successes: The intellectual, affluent and well-connected new generation of Young British Artists - Features - Art. Young artists these days are a more sophisticated bunch. They are more likely to appear in Vanity Fair and Tatler magazines than the pages of a tabloid. They are thoughtful, intellectual and well-connected. They went to Oxford rather than Goldsmiths. They are elegant and polite. Their world is closer to F Scott Fitzgerald than Irvine Welsh. "The work of this new generation is more thoughtful, beautiful, elegant and profound. The YBA generation tried to provoke outrage through a direct relationship with the public," says Nick Hackworth, the director of London's Paradise Row gallery. The artists Conrad Shawcross and Henry Hudson embody the new era, as do Shezad Dawood and Eloise Fornieles. Hudson is perhaps more light hearted. He had a relationship with the society beauty Grace Pilkington, and Countess von Bismarck, Marina Hanbury and Nicky Haslam all turned up to his opening.
Achim Borchardt-Hume is chief curator at the Whitechapel gallery in London. Drawings - Mike Bergen's Creative Dialog. Eraser Dust Everywhere. Kieron Williamson, 10, dubbed 'Mini Monet' sees earnings soar to £1.5m after latest 23 works sell for £250K. Kieron Williamson, 10, has seen his lifetime earnings soar to nearly £1.5m The talented artist sold 23 of his paintings for a total of £242,095 last Friday Another sale will be held this Friday - with his artwork likely to sell in minutes By Suzannah Hills Published: 12:54 GMT, 17 July 2013 | Updated: 00:26 GMT, 18 July 2013 A primary school art prodigy has seen his earnings soar to £1.5million – after the latest sale of his work raised almost £250,000 in just 20 minutes.
Ten-year-old Kieron Williamson, known as the ‘mini Monet’, has gained international renown since he began painting landscapes on a family holiday five years ago. A sale of a collection last summer took his earnings past the million-pound mark. Proud parents: Ten-year-old Mini Monet Kieron Williamson next to a work in progress on the Norfolk broads with his mother Michelle and father Keith Inspiring: Kieron Williamson has stunned the art world with his incredible landscape paintings - at the age of ten. Drawings and Paintings | Paul Emsley. New Interactive Street Art from Ernest Zacharevic. Photo by Julina Rashid Artist Ernest Zacharevic has been busy since first appearing on Colossal last summer with his unique style of street art that often relies on the interaction between physical objects and painted murals. The Malaysia-based artist traveled to Brussels and Panang to create new work, and also completed a series of ads for Toyota about parking lot safety.
He also appears prominently in a new book about street art in his native Georgetown.