Howard Hodgkin
- Synopsis
- theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists in Britain. Each film provides a survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by sequences of key exhibitions and installations around the world.
Howard Hodgkin’s art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly coloured, sweeping compositions, which continue into the picture-frame itself. These paintings straddle representation and abstraction, at the same time as they demonstrate both an awareness of history and an understanding of art’s potential today. Most recently, his interest in working in different scales, evident particularly in significantly larger paintings such as Americana and After Vuillard, demonstrates his concern to engage the viewer in new and challenging ways.
In this interview, illustrated with many key paintings, Howard Hodgkin speaks about how his methods, about his influences, about colour and composition, and about the fundamental importance of painting. - Series
- Theeye, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2002
- Year of production
- 2002
- Subjects
- Art
- Keywords
- art - British; Hodgkin, Howard (1932-; modern art; painters
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 PAL
- Price
- £13.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 26 minutes
- Year
- 2012
Distributor
- Name
Illuminations
- louise@illuminationsmedia.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7288 8400
- Address
- Studio 121, ScreenWorks
22 Highbury Grove
London
N5 2EF - Notes
- Illuminations produces and distributes programmes on arts-related subjects, some of which are made for television and others in conjunction with cultural institutions to accompany specific exhibitions. Many titles are available for sale on DVD, including continuing series on leading contemporary and twentieth century artists and modern architecture, as well as a few programmes on religion, drama, history and ideas.
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