British painter and printmaker
The artist pops in from Normandy to talk us through a show of his great paintings, discuss his old hometown Bradford becoming City of Culture – and reveal why Harry Styles was tricky to paint
Find out more about the 2018 exhibition Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.
The artist pops in from Normandy to talk us through a show of his great paintings, discuss his old hometown Bradford becoming City of Culture – and reveal why Harry Styles was tricky to paint
The artist pops in from Normandy to talk us through a show of his great paintings, discuss his old hometown Bradford becoming City of Culture – and reveal why Harry Styles was tricky to paint
Find out more about the 2018 exhibition Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.
Howard Hodgkin.
Oil on canvas; 175 x 121 cm. Danish painter, ceramist, printmaker, sculptor and writer. Born Asger Jørgensen (a name he changed to Asger Jorn in 1945) at Vejrum near Struer in Denmark; he and his family moved to Silkeborg in 1929. Began to paint in 1930. Went to Paris in 1936 and attended Léger's academy for 10 months, then worked for Le Corbusier on a large mural for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. First one-man exhibition (with Wemaëre) at Dam & Fønns, Copenhagen, 1938. Lived in Denmark throughout the war, and during the German Occupation printed a banned periodical; was trying in his paintings to achieve a freer and more spontaneous style. After the war travelled to Lapland and Tunisia, and also to France, Holland, Belgium, where he met Constant, Wemaëre, Appel and other artists and writers with whom he founded the COBRA group 1948-51. While in Silkeborg Sanatorium with tuberculosis 1951-2 painted the series 'The Wheel of Life' and 'On the Silent Myth'. Left Denmark in 1953 for Switzerland, Italy and France. From 1954 regularly spent the summer months at Albisola Marina in Northern Italy, where he made a huge ceramic mural in 1959 for a school at Aarhus in Denmark. Settled in Paris in 1958 and helped to found the International Situationist movement. From 1959 presented a large number of modern works, including many of his own, to the Silkeborg Museum. His writings include La Langue verte et la Cuite 1968, written with Noel Arnaud. Died in Aarhus. Published in: Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.376
All my age groups got to know one of my favorite artists of all time, the Swiss-German expressionist, abstract artist and Bauhaus teacher, Paul Klee. Klee completed over 9000 works of art in in short 40-year lifetime, mostly drawings and watercolors. Most are small format, drawn on paper, though Klee loved to explore working on other surfaces, such as cardboard and gessoed canvas. His work is defined as child-like, musical, expressive, fantastical, symbolic and cubist, among other things. Landscapes in blocks of carefully balanced colors, filled with a symbolic language are Klee classics - and the inspiration for this project. Klee loved the atmosphere, architecture and colors of North Africa and made many trips to Tunisia during his lifetime. These lengthy sojourns inspired him to produce hundreds of renditions of his geometric, color-blocked, earthy Tunisian landscapes. My 7-13 year olds analyzed a dozen of his works, deconstructing his use of line, shape, color and symbolism. He loved to use watercolor in its most ethereal form - with tons of water for that beautiful transparent wash, and for layering and glazing. For this project, I precut small pieces of canvas and primed each piece with white gesso (like Klee). Using watercolor is transparent washes using 'dirty colors', we began our blocky landscape using geometric shapes and earthy tones. Dirty colors are the ones that build up on the mixing palette side of the watercolor tray - just reactivate these with a moist brush and you've got the most gorgeous earthy tones. Add a hint of a clean color to liven up the muddy colors and bit, and you've got Klee's Tunisian landscape colors - earthy reds, warm oranges, brown-greens, etc. A watercolor wash simply means more water, less pigment. Painting this way allows the bright white canvas (or paper) to shine through, and makes for a soft, ethereal result. We then analyzed his paintings for drawings of city dwellings, villages and desert life, and then drew our own fantastical layered city, connected by stairs and ladders, using fine-liner permanent marker. The iconic Klee sun and symbolism was also incorporated. I had handouts of examples of Klee's symbols to help inspire. To create the soft, hazy looking sun, we took a wet brush and scrubbed the under paint away inside our sun. This rewet the paint and allowed us to then lift it up with a tissue, which revealed the white gesso underneath, and voila, we had a white sun. I also showed the kids how to lift watercolor up using a dry brush. The dry brush soaks up excess water, and pulls up the paint. A great little trick for achieving and controlling transparency. Lastly, like Klee, we mounted our canvas on colored paper, and then mounted that on cardboard, giving us two borders. Ages 6-9 Ages 7-12 Close-up, age 10 Close-up, age 7
British painter and printmaker
“Nobody would affirm that the tree grows its crown in the image of its root. Between above and below can be no mirrored reflection.”
His unique combinations of simplistic forms created a final works that are more than the sum of their parts.
Find out more about the 2018 exhibition Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.
Artista sensibile e raffinato, Paul Klee riesce a realizzare il sogno di trasfigurare ogni genere di esperienza grazie ad uno studio approfondito dei rapporti magici che intercorrono tra forme, idee, luoghi e colori con un nuovo linguaggio espressivo in cui s'intrecciano l'astratto e il figurativo, il descrittivo e il simbolico, donando così all'osservatore l'atmosfera e le sensazioni di una composizione in cui gli oggetti e le figure, pur essendo facilmente individuabili, appaiono immersi in un'atmosfera sognante ed evocativa.
Paul Klee: The Bauhaus Years
See also Tea with Mrs Parikh, 1974 - 1977.
Paul Klee Swiss-born German b.1879 Mosaic-Like, 1932
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Howard Hodgkin: Memories — the first show of any importance since the artist’s death — seems to open him up as never before.
barbaromahony: “Paul Klee ”
Os dejamos una propuesta para acercar la obra de Paul klee a los más pequeños a partir de realizar con ceras manley sus esgrafiados magicos
Oil on cardboard; 24.4 x 22.7 cm. Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
British painter and printmaker
Klee has been variously associated with expressionism, cubism, futurism, surrealism, and abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify. He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way.
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Sir Howard Hodgkin via Guardian Howard Hodgkin via Culture24 Howard Hodgkin via Gagosian--new paintings Howard Hodgkin via Patternbank Howard Hodgkin via Roland Collection Howard Hodgkin Howard Hodgkin printmaking process Howard Hodgkin Howard Hodgkin via TV Tropes Howard Hodgkin's London studio Howard Hodgkin etching and aquatint Howard Hodgkin etching Howard Hodgkin etching Howard Hodgkin Howard Hodgkin print Howard Hodgkin Howard Hodgkin set design for Mark Morris Howard Hodgkin set design for Mark Morris Dance Company Howard Hodgkin scarf design London-based British painter and printmaker, Sir Howard Hodgkin age 80, master of abstraction and winner of the Turner Prize is also a passionate collector of Indian miniatures. I love this quote describing his work--"like Mae West at a cocktail party--meticulously packaged yet irreverently untamed." How great is that!
Le Centre Pompidou propose une nouvelle traversée de l’œuvre de Paul Klee, quarante-sept années après la dernière grande rétrospective française que lui consacra le musée national d’art moderne, en 1969. Réunissant environ deux cent cinquante œuvres,…
Paul Klee Southern (Tunisian) Gardens, 1919, watercolor, 9.5 x 7.5 in, Collection Heinz Berggruen, Paris. Born in Switzerland, Klee is considered both a Swiss and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it.
British painter and printmaker
The artist, famously as emotional as his vibrant works, only started to earn acclaim in his 60s – and two decades later, paints more passionately than ever
This show of portraits – or are they? – by the late painter is as noisy as it is contemplative. And, always, a dancing blaze of colour
