Join art historian and writer Andrea Rose for a fascinating talk on Leon Kossoff (1926-2019). Recognised as one of Britain’s greatest painters, Leon Kossoff, together with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews and RB Kitaj, became known as one of the ‘School of London’, arguably the most telling of them all.
Bomb sites and building sites, city churches, Victorian school buildings, railway stations and tube trains and the restless to-and-fro of workaday street life – mostly in Dalston, Willesden, Kilburn and Whitechapel – are the stuff of Kossoff’s art. His paintings chart the upheavals involved in over half a century of change and development passionately addressed. What makes Kossoff’s paintings so splendidly contemporary is their interplay between observed reality and imaginative zeal: Kossoff doesn’t just perceive and record the world around him, he generates it.
Art Historian Andrea Rose, former Director of Visual Arts at the British Council, has written extensively on British art, from the Pre-Raphaelites to Francis Bacon, and has just completed the Catalogue Raisonné of Leon Kossoff, published by Modern Art Press (London) in September 2021.
Details
Date: Thursday 25 November 2021
Time: 7.30PM
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Admission: Free
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