"These three artists have not been chosen because they have some common aim, outlook or style or because they reveal some underlying characteristic of British painting.  Indeed they vividly reveal the wide stylistic diversity of contemporary art.  In time they cover half a century.  The impressionist tradition, the influence of the School of Paris, the fantasy and violence of surrealist imagery, and the more rigid and geometric aspects of non-figurative art may well be traced here in the work of these three artists whose achievements are widely recognised outside this country."

catalogue introduction Philip James

 

Ctaalogue with an introduction by Philip James and biographical notes on the artists, was published by the Arts Council of Great Britain.  No ISBN

Collection Artist(s)

Glossary

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.