As soon as they walked into the Macquarie Gallery, I thought of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Gunfighters and internationally known English artists do not usually seem to have much in common. Looks, of course, had a lot to do with it. Patrick Caulfield, prematurely silver-haired, was immaculately dressed …
Read more >1. Would you agree there is a crisis of function for painters, and if so how do you think it might be resolved? 2. Do you consider there is any one way of painting – i.e. figurative, abstract, constructist [sic] etc. – likely to be of more social relevance than another? 3. …
Read more >Read a fascinating interview from 1978 which reveals how Hoyland chose to deal with the legacy of Rothko
Read more >Like Frankenthaler, John Hoyland is a painter concerned with the impact of simple masses of colour, but it is hard to imagine anything more different from Frankenthaler’s blotted, loose forms than the hard, heavy rectangles in Hoyland’s recent paintings at the Waddington Galleries, 2 Cork Street. These are painted in …
Read more >‘Don’t search for secret or mysterious recipes… What I offer you is pure joy.’ That is not John Hoyland speaking, need I say, nor any other British artist. There is only one country where artists are permitted to commend their own productions so rhapsodically (and in this case accurately): the …
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