Howard
Hodgkin was born August 6, 1932, in London. He is a British
painter, printmaker, and art collector. His parents paid
for him to go to Camberwell Art School (1949-1950), and
then to Bath Academy of Art Corsham (1950-1954), where
he later taught. In 1955 he married Julia Lane and they
had two sons. One became a television director. In 1962
Howard Hodgkin had his first one-man show in London.
Howard Hodgkin strives to depict 'emotional situations,'
to pin down 'the evasiveness of reality,' as he explains.
Sometimes obscure yet nearly always engaging, his lush,
radiant, daring semiabstract paintings evoke the haphazardness
of experience, the way each of us subjectively constructs
reality. Hodgkin is often classified as an intimist with
Matisse and Bonnard. Using juxtapositions of patterns
and symbols, of realism and nonrealism, he speaks of loneliness,
fear, beauty, death, absence and joy in a self-sufficient
pictorial language. His paintings are like rare, enigmatic
gifts whose meanings sensuously unfold.
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