Link to Post:
http://www.artnews.com/2012/09/12/strange-bedfellows/
On the occasion of the exhibition Édouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890–1940 (at the Jewish Museum through September 23, 2012), Norman L. Kleeblatt writes about Vuillard's substantial influence on contemporary painting.
Kleeblatt notes: "As a source for modern and contemporary artists, Vuillard has hardly seemed a match for Cézanne, Picasso, and Duchamp. But conversations with [Lisa] Yuskavage led me to reconsider a host of postwar and 21st-century artists whose works are clearly in Vuillard’s debt."
Link to Post:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/samet/howard-hodgkin-gagosian-gallery-12-2-11.asp
Jennifer Samet reviews the exhibition Howard Hodgkin on view at Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue through December 23, 2011.
Samet writes: "Hodgkin moves in and unapologetically overtakes minute spaces of art history, turning them inside-out into complete paintings. He recalled that early in his career, a writer described his paintings as a 'brutalization of intimisme.' Hodgkin admits he has been a 'fanatical admirer' of Edouard Vuillard, and one can see the marks and surfaces of Vuillard in close-up examination in Hodgkin's paintings."
Link to Post:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2011/04/howard-hodgkin-in-san-diego.html
Sharon Butler blogs about Howard Hodgkin, whose work is on view in the exhibition Howard Hodgkin, Time and Place, through May 1, 2011 at the San Diego Museum of Art. The post includes two videos of Hodgkin discussing his work "including 'After Ellsworth Kelly,' a painting Hodgkin calls 'a fan letter' to Ellsworth Kelly."
