The artist,famously as emotional as his vibrant works, only started to earn acclaim in his 60s – and two decades later, or paints more passionately than ever“I dislike portray,” says Howard Hodgkin, one of the world’s greatest living painters. “Most of the time it’s irrelevant. It doesn’t mean enough, or ever,quite.” The 83-year-passe English artist is in New York for an exhibition of new and recent works at Gagosian gallery, entitled From Memory. It is an exhilarating display by an artist at the peak of his powers: Hodgkin may be elderly but his work is far from frail. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com