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Jump To Comment: 1 2RB Kitaj pretty much invented the notion of the school of the London, a fictional, although widely believed idea that he, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff were all somehow connected both as artists and friends.
Although false, this idea gave London painting a cachet that meant a lot to a certain generation of artists, who soldiered on with brushes and oils while Saatchi was getting ready to change the London art world into a subsidiary of the advertising world.
I thought it poignant and sad that Kitaj ended up feeling so bitter about London after his Tate retrospective in 1994 was savaged by the newspaper critics. "A little bit of fake Beckmann, a little bit of fake Picasso, but above all fake,'' wrote The Independent's hack, and others were worse. When Kitaj's wife died during the show he rather crazily blamed the journalists, and decided that he'd be better off in the USA.
Some say he was a great draughtsman, better than Degas, but I don't know if that's all an artist needs. My favourite piece of his is this one, called Communist and Socialist. I remember finding it in a book in NCAD library when I was doing my foundation there and being amazed by it.
Communist and Socialist
maybe the hack grew up...
Kitaj was born in the US and only found himself thinking about his exilic state at a certain
stage in his life.. a bit like the artist Plath, who had just begun to absorb and discuss
the Shoah in her art at the time of her death (the conversation was left unfinished).
I went in 1994 to the Tate to see the retrospective and spent most of the four days I had in
London looking at the Brushwork in one Kitaj Painting- The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg-
I can remember the size of the canvas and the brushwork quite clearly, and the books
it led to, cos thats what art does- it engages at different levels.
The introduction to the Manifesto is a quote by Eliot (George):
'A Modern book 'On Liberty' (J.S Mill) has maintained that from the freedom of
individual men to persist in idiosyncrasies the world may be enriched.Why should we
not apply this argument to the idiosyncracy of a nation, and pause in our haste
to boot it down'.