kitchen sink realism was an english cultural movement which developed in the late 1950's and early 1960's in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays. it used a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working class britons living in council flats and spending their off-hours in grimy pubs to explore social issues and political controversies.the john osborne play, 'look back in anger', is an example of this genre.
john bratby was a leading member of the 'kitchen sink school', an expressionist group of the 1950's whose name derived from a painting by bratby of a sink.
painting: bratby's 'still life with chips frier' 1954
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