Hodgkin in Oxford.

Museum of Modern Art in Oxford has an exhibition by Howard Hodgkin called Time and Place - a cool refuge on a hot and busy Sunday morning. I saw an exhibition of Hodgkin's work in Tate Britain some years ago and could not relate to it at all, but this time was very different. It was helped by a very informative video of Hodgkin himself talking about his work. He comes across as a very humane and humble man still striving to achieve - his down to earth discussion of the nature of painting was very attractive indeed. Two very large pictures, Home, Home on the Range and Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - his largest works to date look absolutely stunning in the white almost industrial setting of MOMA. I suppose if I could take one home it would be Spring Rain - such glorious colours. The two pictures below are taken from the Guardian - Leaf is almost like a piece of calligraphy, a sweep of green pigment.

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