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64 I n 1976 the great figurative painter, writer and polemicist R B Kitaj organised a major exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain, entitled The Human Clay. The exhibition was intended to demonstrate the power of British Art and to champion the importance of drawing and of study from life, not just for the figurative painter but for all artists. Although painting and print- making was included, Kitaj’s focus was drawing and a new exhibition at James Hyman Fine Art, Beyond The Human Clay, likewise includes work in all these media, but with a particular focus on drawing. Most famously it was in his catalogue introduction that Kitaj wrote for the first time of a School of London, an idea that would soon focus on the work of just six artists: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. To mark the 35th anniversary of Kitaj’s seminal Arts Council exhibition, The Human Clay, and to celebrate ten years of exhibitions focused on British figurative art of the 20th century at James Hyman Gallery, James Hyman is staging an exhibition entitled Beyond The Human Clay. As the title suggests, this is an exhibition that looks forward as well as back. Beyond The Human Clay is divided into two parts: the first focuses on a selection of the artists chosen by Kitaj and the second part presents a selection of younger artists for whom drawing has been an important part of their practice. The exhibition is rooted in two important School of London works, a major Leon Kossoff Self Portrait from the 1950s and a manifesto painting by Kitaj, The Bells of Hell, from 1961. Kossoff’s Self Portrait illustrates the importance of struggle, labour and effort. This dense image made from layer upon layer of charcoal and crayon glows with life and is a moving portrait of a battered, but resilient, survivor. Kitaj’s major early painting, The Bells of Hell, is just as daring in its expressive, fractured figuration. A bold, direct image, it depicts an important event in American history - General Custer and the Battle of The Human Clay by James Hyman

R.B. Kitaj's "The Human Clay"

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Artículo (en inglés) sobre la gran exposición que tuvo lugar en 1976 en el Arts Council of Great Britain, titulada The Human Clay, organizada por el pintor R. B. Kitaj.

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