[1] Painters associated with the School of London included Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Anne Dunn, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, R. B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff.
The School of London pursued an art focused on a kind of loose figurative form of post-war realism that reflected the people and the world around them.
At the time this new wave of figurative painting was very controversial, running against the dominance of abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism, violating the sacred hermetic codes that defined these forms of art.
If some of the strange and fascinating personalities you may encounter here were given a fraction of the internationalist attention and encouragement reserved in this barren time for provincial and orthodox vanguardism, a School of London might be more real than the one I have construed in my head.
A School of real London in England, in Europe ... with potent art lessons for foreigners emerging from this odd old, put upon, very singular place.