Following on from this success, a new exhibition opens next week at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery looking back into how a group of painters transformed the British art world.
The School of London shared connections to the capital, its art schools and galleries, and produced confident, expressive paintings which reflected the world in which they lived and worked.
In 1976, RB Kitaj curated an influential exhibition entitled ‘The Human Clay’, and featured many great artists including Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach and Maggi Hambling. He described this group of artists as the ‘School of London’ and wrote about their “unique and strong” artistic personalities, the quality of their work and their imagination.
This new exhibition opening on Wednesday 22 February brings together works by members of the School of London from Swindon’s important collection of modern British art and features Frank Auerbach, Lucien Freud, Richard Hamilton and Leon Kossoff.
Recent acquisitions by RB Kitaj and Joe Tilson are displayed for the first time. The exhibition also features their friends, teachers and influences.
Modern Times runs till Saturday 1 July.
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Leon Kossoff, Booking Hall No 6, 1975 (c) The Artist[/caption]
