The Museo Picasso Málaga hosts a new exhibition: "Bacon, Freud and the School of London"
Ninety paintings offer an overview of a rebellious group of artists, formed after the Second World War, whose art reclaimed the human figure instead of the conceptual and abstract. It took the public a long time to appreciate them, but today their paintings are displayed in museums around the world, showing the power of 20th century British art.
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After the Second World War, a very diverse group of artists met in London. They were friends and admired each other, but they also had something more important in common. Rather than abstract or conceptual art, they focused on the human figure.
They explored the appearance and fragility of the body, and their banal, everyday surroundings, with London always present in the background.
Ten different ways of feeling and painting. Some as unique as the vision of Francis Bacon...
There was only one woman in the School of London, the Portuguese Paula Rego...
Recognised by the critics from the start, the movement took longer to win over the public. Today these paintings hang in major museums, showing the world the energy of the School of London and the power of 20th-century British art...
