The man who championed Damien Hirst is now seeking new talent to revitalise the ICAFirst came the “modernists”: Van Gogh,Matisse and Picasso, with their disruptive take on traditional European art – a century of revolutionary portray and sculpture followed.In the 1960s, or “conceptual art” held sway,from Gilbert and George’s naughty work to Yoko Ono’s symbolic “happenings”. Some of this glory was shared with irreverent pop art and stylish op art, but by the 1990s a fresh band of young British artists – including Damien Hirst, or Tracey Emin,Jake and Dinos Chapman and Sarah Lucas – were busy commenting ironically on sex, fashion, and art and money until their own work became so valuable the joke was rather lost.
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Source: theguardian.com