Lucian Freud, Ronald B. Kitaj, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff.
Bacon Francis
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Sutherland Graham
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In the early 1960’s, painter Ronald Kitaj decided on the name “School of London” for a group of six artists (himself, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff), all of them figurative painters and all of them living and working in London.
More artists joined in later, among them Tony Bevan. As for Francis Bacon, his production stands halfway between abstraction and figuration. He produced works in series (portraits of popes, heads, etc). He especially focused on one subject, the human body, which by its very nature resisted the artist. In his paintings, Bacon represented physical reality much less than he did the human condition. The body is shown isolated within a well defined space and prey to constant metamorphoses. Bacon’s art lies in his ability to show the fragility of man when faced with his own pain and impulses, and as he becomes a slave to them.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
