Without a shadow of a doubt, Howard Hodgkin, is one of my favourite British artists, EVER! It really does, p*** me off, that he is not recognised as being the great talent that we have, by the art establishment in this country: So I'm consoling myself with the fact that there are two exhibitions that relate to the great man himself in Oxford institutions in June! The first exhibition is at The Oxford MoMA (Museum of Modern Art - New York MoMA's little sister!) Indeed it was they that first showed any kind of retrospective of Hodgkin's work in Britain (in 1976). This current exhibition concentrates on his work from the first 10 years or so of this Decade. Even if you are new to abstract art, please do go and see this, you will rarely see such beautiful usage of colour - he is obsessed with it in a way like all artist's favourite artists are; The Venetians, Turner, Matisse, Kandinsky!
The second exhibition is showing some works from Hodgkin's private collection, and is being held at the Newly fabulous Ashmolean Museum. "Royal Elephants from Mughal India" showcases 20 beautiful depictions of Indian Court elephants from 1570 to 1750.
Go to Oxford and make a Howard Hodgkin day of it!
Home, Home on the Range, 2001 - 2007 - Howard Hodgkin
Elephant and Rider, c. 1640 - Indian Court painting
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