A Marriage of Styles

With works drawn exclusively from the Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition traces various emphatic shifts in style, subject and mood that charactise British art in the 1950s and 1960s. These decades saw the rise of a number of influential artists including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Paolozzi and David Hockney. Hockney’s well-known painting The Second Marriage is a signal feature of the exhibition. The related title, A Marriage of Styles, is cited occasionally in connection with the painting but is used here as an allusion to the transitions and interconnections of style mentioned above.

Sourced from: A marriage of styles: British art in the fifties and sixties. National Gallery of Victoria, 1996