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The Mystery of Appearance
Opens: 07/12/2011 Closes: 18/02/2012
Haunch Of Venison, London
Including Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, David Hockney and Richard Hamilton, a show of rare and major works by ten celebrated artists who waved the figurative painting flag during abstraction's post-war heyday. Previously lumped apart in the art history books, this addresses the real creative ties shared by a generation.
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The Arts Desk“An extraordinary compilation...” Although the works on view demonstrate fascinating differences as well as shared traits, the thrust of the argument is the myriad layered visual conversations between the protagonists...
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The Telegraph“A sphinx’s riddle of an exhibition...” This is a teasingly enigmatic display, a sometimes baffling but always thought-provoking anthology of paintings, studies and drawings...
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The Independent“Artists who stuck to their guns...” 40 works by ten of the leading painters of the 1950s and 1960s would suggest it was. But it also shows, in some of the paintings at least, just how good polite art could be and how impolite some artists were...
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Financial Times“There is a terrific life force here...” This is a revelatory historical show that, most importantly, engages with painting as a continuous, living, joyful mystery – turning on, as Bacon asked, “how can appearance be made...
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this is london“Paintings sing in great unison...” They shared a fascination with the human figure and landscape, and whether working from life, photographs or images from books, kept faith with paint's ability to convey the essence of human experience...
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