Index Code:

ART-OAT-HOD

Orgin:

Field Notes:

Broad gestures nested within heavy borders treat the support like a container for interior temperature

Defining Moment:

The small panels where the frame is painted as intensely as the center making the picture a single fused object

Howard Hodgkin

(

1932–2017

)

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Hodgkin built a world where painting becomes recollection — frames saturated with layered touch and chromatic intensity.

His works compress emotion into spatial bursts.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Howard Hodgkin’s work, this approach appears where emotional restraint structures color fields.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Howard Hodgkin’s work, this approach appears where emotional restraint structures color fields.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Post-War Abstraction

Abstraction responds to rupture through scale, gesture, and structure.

Color Abstraction

Color operates independently as a primary structural element.

Howard Hodgkin

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Observartory

In Dialogue

Howard Hodgkin

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue