Essay accompanying a show at the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, curated by Elena Geuna. Hoyland is considered by many to be one of the greatest abstract painters of his generation. He championed the centrality of abstraction in the history and survival of modernist art. Hoyland believed that paintings …
Read more >It’s difficult to believe that John Hoyland is dead. He was a man so full of life, with such appetite for living, that his absence from our midst makes no sense. Even when grievously ill in the past months, he was more likely to engage in anecdote and tell jokes …
Read more >John Hoyland emerged as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters in the Sixties, exhibiting with both the influential Situation group in 1960 and the New Generation artists – along with Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney and Bridget Riley – at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1964. Later that year, he went …
Read more >The painter John Hoyland is now in his seventies, but his breathtaking giant canvases still radiate strength and vitality. Howard Jacobson spends time with him in his studio The floor of John Hoyland’s studio resembles a jungle undergrowth after a storm – a wonder of wild colour, fertility and iridescence, …
Read more >It has been a long time coming, but ‘John Hoyland’ at the Royal Academy (until October 31; supported by Donald and Jeanne Kahn) is well worth the wait. To reduce the 40-year career of our most flamboyant non-figurative painter – he insists on ‘non-figurative’ in preference to ‘abstract’ – to 22 …
Read more >John Hoyland harks back to a time when painters were action men, and painting was king. Gordon Burn finds that the forgotten revolutionary of British art is pretty salty about his peers – and braced for a kicking when his own work goes on show next week. ‘Solitary studio practice’ …
Read more >John Hoyland is king of the castle as far as freely handled abstract painting goes in this country, and reminds us of the fact with his latest exhibition. No one here mixes colour and technique with more style or assurance. Hoyland holds unapologetically to the mainstream, the international current of …
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