Gordon Howard Hodgkin (1932)

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Gordon Howard Hodgkin - English artist. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts Kemberuella in Dorset and the Academy of Art in Bath (1949-1954 years).. His first solo exhibition was organized in 1962 in his early works he isplzoval simple shapes and relatively organichenny set of simple colors. In the early 1970's. painting it became more spontaneous, the palette - more crowded this time his work became known.

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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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Hodgkin avoids the romantic pathos, did not resort to allegory, nor to moralism. His paintings can be called "semi-abstract": it is present as would be the "echo" human characters are in some sort of enclosed spaces - as if the viewer looked at toy theater with puppets.


Hodgkin has traveled several times was in India, where he met with Indian miniatures, vshitivshey it (he even brought their collection), and which has had considerable influence on his painting. Hodgkin digested this effect and included it in his decidedly modern language: Hodgkin's attitude to the Indian miniature can be compared with the ratio of Matisse to Islamic ornament, in both cases, the artist transformed the source of his inspiration.

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Hodgkin often gives svim paintings titles that refer to specific events - for example, "Dinner at West Hill" (1966) or "Farewell to the Gulf of Naples (1980-82 years).. The artist explained that his work - this is an "image rasstrogavshih his situation."

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In 1984 Hodgkin represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. In 1985 he received the Turner Prize, and in 1992 he received the title of Lord. In 2006, he had a big retrospective at the Tate Gallery.

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