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 EELES ANONYME - BROUGHT TO LIFE


Eliot Hodgkin is best known for his still life paintings in tempera, but there are
several other facets of his career as an artist which have never been fully explored. In
the 1930s, once he had got into his stride, he produced large, almost flamboyant flower
pieces in oil, but towards the end of the decade his style became more precise as he
began to discover the refined quality of tempera as a medium. His subjects took on a
distinctly surrealist treatment, echoes of Dalě, and this led on to an almost obsessive
attention to detail, each painting being preceded by an elaborate, scaled drawing in
pencil and brown wash with colour notes scribbled all over the sheet. Hodgkin’s 1940s
paintings of the City of London after bombing – half-ruined buildings, mounds of
rubble and rank weeds – are mesmerizing and will come as a surprise to many viewers.
In the next decade there is more concentration on still life subjects, although there are
some highly evocative landscapes in the 1950s and 1960s resulting from holiday tours
through France, Switzerland and Italy. However, it is as an exquisite painter of objects,
usually of ordinary things like lemons, radishes, birds’ eggs, dead leaves etc., that
Hodgkin is best known for among art connoisseurs. It is the ‘placement’ of the object,
as much as the way the surface texture is described in paint, that makes these small
pictures fascinating and deeply memorable.
Hodgkin is very much in the tradition of Adriaen Coorte and Sanchez Cotan, two
artists that he much admired. Hodgkin and his wife were also keen art collectors, and,
not surprisingly, they owned a fine still life painting by Giorgio Morandi, which now
has its home in the Tate Gallery.

Editeur PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING
Auteur EELES / ANONYME/
Disponibilité Disponible
Parution 05/07/2019
ISBN 9781911300571
EAN 9781911300571
Dimensions Epaisseur : 18, Largeur : 247, Hauteur : 288
Prix TTC 40,00 €
Montant HT 37,91 €

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