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The School of London
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SCHOOL of LONDON
Artists in THE HUMAN CLAY Exhibit, 1976
Michael Andrews (b. 1928-1995) see special page
Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) RCA Student 1952-55
Francis Bacon (b. 1909-1992) RCA Visiting Artist 1950-51 & c. 1968.
Adrian Berg (b. 1929) RCA Student: 1958-61 / Senior Tutor: 1987-88
". . . I believe that Berg's best landscape are among the most significant works of art which deal with the naural world made in Britian in the last quarter century." - Peter Fuller
CLIVE BARKER
Portrait of Peter Blake
National Portrait Gallery
Peter Blake (b 1932, Dartford, Kent)
RCA Student: 1953-56 / Tutor: 1964-76
Often referred to as the father of British Pop Art, Blake's work is characterized by a photo-realist manner and the use of collage and assemblages of collected mementoes. . .he designed the famous record sleeve for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967." and "Exhbition Road," 1988 albums
At right: Self-Portrait with Badges, 1961, Tate Gallery, London.
THE WHO
Face Dances
Album concept and design by Peter Blake. 16 commissioned portraits of The Who by British painters except - Francis Bacon, who refused to participate. . .
Top row: Bill Jacklin | Tom Phillips | Colin Self | Richard Hamilton
2nd row: Michael Andrews | Allen Jones | David Inshaw | David Hockney
3rd row: Clive Barker | R. B. Kitaj | Howard Hodgkin | Paul Caulfield
4th row: Peter Blake | Joe Tilson | Patrick Procktor | David Tindle
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artist index
- Frank Bowling (b. 1936) RCA Student: 1959-62
"He was at one time an expressionist, influened by Francis Bacon, but possessed of a social conscience." - Vivien Raynor
- Olwyn Bowey (b. 1936)
- Spephen Buckley (b. 1944) RCA Visiting Tutor: 1976 & 1986
"Buckley's unwavering commitment to the physicality of the art object made him an influential figure in a mid-1970s British art work, dominated by Minimalism and Conceptualism. . ." - Exhibition Road
- Rodney Burn (1899-1984) RCA Tutor 1929-31, 1946, 1947-65
- Richard Carline (b. 1896)
- Anthony Caro (b. 1924)
PATRICK CAULFIELD
Interior with a Picture
- Patrick Caulfield (b. 1936) RCA Student 1960-63
- Sir William Coldstream (b. 1908, Northumberland)
- Richard Cook (b. 1947)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
woodcut, 1984
- Jim Dine (b. 1935)
- Sandra Fisher (USA, 1947-1994)
Sandra Fisher met R. B. Kitaj in 1971, "when Kitaj was teaching at UCLA following the death of his first wife, Elsi. They met again, quite by chance, two years later in a restaurant in London and soon began living together. (Kitaj included her in his exhibition The Human Clay in 1976 ) In1983, they were married in London's oldest synagogue. It was a ceremony that included some of England's finest painters: Hockney, the best man, gave away the bride, and Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff made up part of the Orthodox minyan (10 Jewish men)." (source: Expatriate artist R.B. Kitaj's bittersweet homecoming by Brendan Bernhard
Sandra Fisher is celebrated in Kitaj's paintings Cecil Court, London WC2 (The Refugees), The Wedding, and Los Angeles No. 3, 2001 (see image below).
R. B. KITAJ
Los Angeles No. 3, 2001
(source)
- Peter de Francia (b. 1921) RCA Professor 1972-86
- Lucian Freud (b. 1922)
- Patrick George (b. 1923)
- John Golding (b. 1929) RCA Tutor 1971-86
- Lawrence Gowing (b. 1918)
- Maggi Hambling (b. 1945)
- Henrietta Moraes by Maggi Hambling
Marlborough Fine Art, London, Oct/Nov, 2001
 Henrietta began to pose for Maggi Hambling at the end of May 1998. "I became her subject, rather than she mine. She seized power as ruthlessly as a Borgia. Her death in January 1999 left me with 'unfinished business' and her confrontational presence continued to fill the studio. The bronzes began after she died, and several of the paintings, which had been unsuccessfully attempted during her life, only became possible after it. She inhabits me still, and I hope this exhibition is a celebration of her undefeated spirit."
image: "Henrietta (Moraes) Remembering," 2001, oil
- George Melly at Ronnie Scott's, Looking out at the Audience, 2000, oil on canvas
- ARTISTS ONLINE "H" LINKS
- 3 Women: Muriel Belcher, Henrietta Moraes, Isabel Rawsthorne
artist index
RICHARD HAMILTON
Just What Is It That Makes Today's
Homes so Different, so Appealling
collage, 1956
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
- Richard Hamilton (b. 1922, London, England)
artist index
- Nigel Henderson (b. 1917)
R. B. KITAJ
"The Neo Cubist" (D. Hockney)
oil/canvas
- David Hockney (b. 1937) RCA Student: 1959-62
 Born 9th. July 1937, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England; studied at the Royal College of Art, London from 1959 to 1962. He studied there with R. B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Peter Caulfield.In 1964 he moved to California and started his sun-drenched "swimming-pool" pictures. In 1974 the British television documentary "A Bigger Splash" explored his breakup and subsequent friendship with artist Peter Schlesinger.
above: David Hockney, "The Cavafy Suite," 1966 (detail)
12 etchings/aquatints, 13 5/8" x 8 3/4"
artist index
HOWARD HODGKIN
In the Bay of Naples, 1980-82
- Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932)
RCA Tutor 1975-76
artist index
- Allen Jones (b. 1937, Southampton, Hants)
RCA Student 1959-60
ALLEN JONES
"Self Portrait," 1959
oil painting
- R.B. Kitaj (b. 1932) RCA Student 1959-61
- Leon Kossoff (b. 1926) RCA Student 1953-56
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John Lessore (b. 1939)
Kenneth Martin (1905-1984) RCA Student 1929-32
Robert Medley (b. 1905)
Alexander Moffat (b. 1943)
Henry Moore (b. 1898)
Leonard McComb (b. 1930)
Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924)
Philip Rawson (b. 1924)
William Roberts (1895-1980)
Tony Scherman (b. 1950)
Peter Schlesinger (b. 1948)
William Scott (b. 1913)
COLIN SELF
"Portrait," 1962
acrylic on board, 22 x 18.5 cms.
Colin Self (b. 1941)
Born in Norwich, Self studied at Norwich School of Art before studying at the Slade between 1961-3. Hid work was extremely influential during the sixties when he was affiliated with the Pop-art movement. He visited the United States and Canada in 1962 and 1965 and was included in numerous mixed exhibitions around the world . . . The Tate organised an exhibition of his works on paper in 1995
Stella Steyn (b. 1907)
William Turnbull (b. 1922)
EUAN UGLOW
"Zagi," 1981, oil/canvas
Euan Uglow (b. 1932)
artist index
Elizabeth Vellacott (b. 1905) RCA Student 1925-29
RUSKIN SPEAR
Professor Carel Weight, 1961
oil on board, 1441 x 1162 mm
The Tate Collection, London
Carel Weight (b. 1908) RCA Tutor 1947-57 / Professor 1957-72
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SCHOOL OF LONDON LINKS:
- THE HUMAN CLAY
- THE COLONY ROOM
- KunstHausWien: School of London
- A New and Noble School
"The School of London and their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians" makes a spectacular case for expressive figurative painting as the most vibrant and vital strand in current British art. School of London is a contested term, having come to mean something less inclusive, more stylistically focused than R.B. Kitaj first meant when in 1976 he coined the phrase. The Merians's collection nestles between the macro definition of anything happening in London that Kitaj might think cool and the micro definition of Francis Bacon's ménage of protégés: Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews. For sure, however, at the core of this collection are superb examples of the kind of existentialist-absurdist paint dramas evoked in all our minds by that magic mantra, School of London. Somehow the tight, cramped, awkward, sweaty desperado of Lucian Freud and the exhilaratingly obsessive exactitude of Euan Uglow come to make sense of one another.
. . . There are two . . mid-sized 1990s Freuds, three important Kitajs from his controversial mid-career period, as well as drawings, really good examples of recentish Kossoff and Auerbach, a couple of fine examples from Michael Andrews, a sparse producer, plenty of recent (post-Pop) Peter Blake, smatterings of Hockney and in-depth coverage of John Wonnacott and Euan Uglow. Plus Paula Rego, Craigie Aitchison, Tony Bevan, Peter Doig and others. It's a personal collection, for sure, with taste out-ruling comprehensiveness. Wonnacott is solely represented by group figure works, for instance, to the exclusion of his landscapes, and there is no Bacon because Mrs. M. can't bear the sight of him (good for her!). This degree of truth and particularity in collecting this way seems to mirror the ethics of the painters themselves, with their existential doggedness and true-grit determination to be "authentic".
- THE NEW REPUBLIC: JED PERL on ART (11-11-96)
- THE WILSON COLLECTION Pallant House Gallery
The Wilson Collection, currently on loan to various public galleries, will be housed at The Pallant House Gallery in a major extension to the building. Colin St. John Wilson, best known as architect of the British Library, is a personal friend of most of the artists represented:
- MICHAEL ANDREWS (The Colony Room)
- FRANK AUERBACH
- PETER BLAKE (The 1962 Beatles)
- DAVID BOMBERG
- PATRICK CAULFIELD (Study for the 'Portrait of Juan Gris')
- PRUNELLA CLOUGH
- WILLIAM COLDSTREAM
- LUCIAN FREUD (Self Portrait with Hyacinth in Pot)
- RICHARD HAMILTON (Swinging London)
- HOWARD HODGKIN
- R B KITAJ
- EDUARDO PAOLOZZI
- WALTER SICKERT
- YCBA: School of London and Their Friends
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