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Article: Leon Kossoff: Mitchel-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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For pure cussedness it's hard to beat the London painters who came to prominence in the wake of WWII. A generation younger than the Abstract Expressionists, artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud shared with their New York colleagues a sense of existential angst, expressed through an extended process of scraping out and overpainting that reflected their quest to encapsulate intense feeling by sheer insistence. While no less engaged by the physicality of their materials than their American precursors, these artists rejected abstraction to celebrate the appearances of the quotidian. Kossoff and his colleagues scrutinized their friends and family, and ...
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