more primitive kind of painting that engaged directly with the viewer
both antique and contemporary
their very names are redolent both of history and romance
who collaborated in her husband's work at Newgrange from its beginning
It is the curious encounters behind his often precarious adventures that make up The Last Colonial
Modernists & Mavericks author-steven-heller more primitive kind of paintingWhat can painting do? This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more. Drawing on decades of interviews, Martin Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the