Have you ever wondered where the phrase kitchen sink drama came from? It is a term coined to describe a late 1950s British cultural movement in theatre, art, novels and art in which the heroes were usually depicted as angry young men. It used a style of social realism which depicted the domestic situations of working class Britons. A good example is the love-triangle plot of Look Back in Anger, set in a one-room flat in the Midlands. The genre has continued to this day with such popular TV favourites as Coronation Street and Eastenders. When it comes to art, Kitchen Sink School was a description coined by art critic David Sylvester, used to describe painters who depicted social scenes of domestic life in dark, sombre colours. The term kitchen sink was derived from an expressionist painting by John Bratby of a kitchen sink. David Sylvester wrote, in 1954, about trends in recent art, calling his article The Kitchen Sink in reference to Bratbys picture. Sylvester commented on a new interest among young painters in domestic scenes, with the emphasis on the banality of life.