In art,
neorealism was established by the ex-
Camden Town Group painters
Charles Ginner and
Harold Gilman at the beginning of
World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life. Their intentions were proclaimed in Ginner’s manifesto in
New Age (1 January 1914), which was also used as the preface to Gilman and Ginner’s two-man exhibition of that year. It attacked the academic and warned against the ‘decorative’ aspect of imitators of Post-Impressionism. The best examples of neorealist work is that produced by these two artists and also by
Robert Bevan, whose short-lived
Cumberland Market Group they joined in 1914.