Howard Hodgkin
Dicecream Magazine🔳Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.
In 1980, Hodgkin was invited by John Hoyland to exhibit work as part of the Hayward Annual at the Hayward Gallery along with Gillian Ayres, Basil Beattie, Terry Setch, Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Ben Nicholson and others.
“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one,” he said.
In 1984, Hodgkin represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985 he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992 he was knighted.
A feature of his painting was that he made the frame intrinsic to the work " incorporated physically into the painting as part of its making, or created as an illusion to give definition to his subject."
In 2016, despite being one of the most celebrated British painters of his generation, he told the Guardian, “I hate painting—most of the time it’s irrelevant. It doesn’t mean enough, ever, quite.”
