Page 50 - Studio International - October 1965
P. 50
Farewell to flat, goodbye to square
London Commentary by G. S. Whittet
In a period of energies, trapped in a scheme of constant was the painting itself and its act of becoming, its own
excitation in order to create a novelty against last year's evidence of creation, has in a few short years grown
novelty, of painting that is not painting because it is almost old-fashioned, it is a shock to confront the new
not concerned with paint (it is about collage, about work of Francis Bacon. Because Bacon is now operating
plastic) and when even the subject of the painting that with paint in a much more closely involved way than
Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait (Isobel
Rawsthorne) 1965
78 X 58 in.
Marlborough New London Gallery
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