MODERNISTS y MAVERICKS

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative . R. B. Kitajs proposal, made in 1976, that there was a substantial School of London was essentially correct but it caused confus ion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of F rancis Bacon and also Bridget Riley.