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1954
 
    
A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife       
1960
 
   
British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture      
1960
 
    
British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art       
Bridget Riley, photograph by Ida Kar, c.1962
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1962
 
   
Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists      
1967
 
    
A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools       
1971
 
    
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy       
1996
 
   
Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung