from the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Mervyn Levy introduces 25 years of British Painting, based on the current exhibition at the Royal Academy, where for the first time this century the cream of British painting has been collected under one roof.
From the Picasso-based art of the early 50s, British painting threads its way through the abstract into the clearer waters of pop and op art, returning more recently to figurative work, a contemporary equivalent of Victorian story-telling painting.
Producer KEN GRIFFIN