Howard Hodgkin. Dark Evening, 2011.
Each artist creates a visual language, of color/form/pattern/sign/themes, and to fully read what they present to us we have to speak it with them. Most times that means we have to learn a new style. In a first encounter Hodgkin can seem simplistic and naive to the point of childhood fingerpainting. But if we look back at his oeuvre, work after work through decades, his language starts to be more legible and we glimpse beyond that first impression.
#Painting
Each artist creates a visual language, of color/form/pattern/sign/themes, and to fully read what they present to us we have to speak it with them. Most times that means we have to learn a new style. In a first encounter Hodgkin can seem simplistic and naive to the point of childhood fingerpainting. But if we look back at his oeuvre, work after work through decades, his language starts to be more legible and we glimpse beyond that first impression.
#Painting