Changing with the Times
Sep 01, 2022
4 minutes
BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI
NUMBER OF the School of London painters of the mid-20th century have gone on to have staggering careers. These were a group of post-World War II artists who greatly expanded the scope of figurative art, presenting the world around them in new ways by producing a striking realism charged with mystery, intimacy, anxiety and emotion. David Hockney is one of the foremost success stories of this group—and when you think about how different Hockney, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff are from each other, you begin to realize what an incredible phase of art this movement was. Seeing what was produced by this collection of artists must have looked
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