Just a few lines to define what I mean when referring to Neo-Romantic.All information here is from The Spirit Of Place by Malcolm Yorke. A wonderful book.
One of, if not the first use of the term Neo-Romantic came from reviewer, Raymond Mortimer. Writing in the New Statesman, 28th March 1942, when describing the various groups of artists working in Britain at that time.
"He thought them more traditional in outlook than the Surrealists and Abstractionists insofar as they admitted the claims of both the senses and the intellect". The Neo-Romantics of the late 30's were seen by many to be rebelling "against the Francophiliac preachings of Roger Fry", yet never venturing as far as "geometrical abstraction" of Rouault or Cherico.
Two important exhibitions have helped to secure this movement's place in art history, "The British NeoRomantics 1935-1950" (Fisher Fine Art) and 'A Paradise Lost - The Neo-Romantic imagination in Britain 1935 - 1955" (Barbican Art gallery).
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