In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.
Bevan
Main themes of the group include views of everyday London, its music halls, mundane domestic interiors, and inevitable portraits.
He divided his time between summer painting in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon, and views of London and its remaining working horses.
Trained in Paris, visited the Pont-Aven art colony and met Gauguin, his early style was radical. He documented the last decades of working horses in London, and rural East Devon.
Between 1910-14, avant garde painting in Britain came to the fore, with exhibitions of the Allied Artists Association, Fry’s Post-Impressionists, and this group of 16 painters.
The Eclectic Light Company 