Hodgkin's often been compared to Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard and Degas, whom he loves, especially Degas - he is the successor of the French tradition, which can be called "intimizmom", when he pushed away from their daily lives, wrote of his friends, his family for lunch or during exercise, their favorite cats and dogs, the view from my window - not out of some self-centeredness, so utterly alien to the traditions intimizma, but to show that everyday, banal life is full of poetry and deserves to become a subject of the picture. His paintings are not anecdotal, but filled with genuine emotion.
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