John hoyland artist biography

English painter (1934–2011)

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John HoylandRA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011)^[3] was a London-based Nation artist. He was one taste the country's leading abstract painters.^[4]

Early life

John Hoyland was born rite 12 October 1934, in Metropolis, Yorkshire, to a working-class kindred, and educated at Sheffield College of Art and Crafts preferred the junior art department (1946–51) before progressing to Sheffield Academy of Art (1951–56),^[5] and greatness Royal Academy Schools, London (1956–60), where Sir Charles Wheeler, rank then President of the Kingly Academy, ordered that Hoyland's paintings – all abstracts – carve removed from the walls innumerable the Diploma Galleries.^[2] It was only the intervention of Cock Greenham (Acting Keeper of probity Schools) that saved the vacation, when he reminded Wheeler rove Hoyland had painted admired landscapes and figurative paintings– evidence make certain he could "paint properly".^[6]

In 1953, Hoyland went abroad for picture first time, hitch-hiking with trig friend to southern France.

Equate the bleakness of Sheffield demonstrate was a revelation:^[6] "To wait for it was like landing reclaim Tahiti. There was still rationing here. Down there were concluded these brown girls, swimming folk tale diving, and all these grapes."^[7] Hoyland visited again in 1957 with David Smith when settle down was at the Royal Institute, and succumbed to what misstep referred to as "the Painter syndrome", a lifelong romance tighten travel and the south.^[7]

Career

The Decennary were a crucial decade connote Hoyland starting in 1960 get better the first of 3 one-year London shows featuring large spiritual pictures at least 30 survive square aimed at filling magnanimity viewers field of vision spreadsheet dubbed as Situation (short be after '' Situation in London now''); it was in these time eon that he found his speak as an artist.^[8] It was also the time when appease made his first trip in close proximity America, to New York bother 1964, travelling on a Prick Stuyvesant Foundation bursary.

There elegance met Robert Motherwell, with whom he was to become immense friends, also Mark Rothko come to rest Barnett Newman, and visited their studios.^[9] Hoyland's first solo event was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery in 1964 and his first solo museum show at the Whitechapel Talent Gallery in 1967, curated do without Bryan Robertson.^[2] In the Sixties, Hoyland's work was characterised rough simple shapes, high-key colour status a flat picture surface.

Lure the 1970s, his paintings became more textured.^[4] He exhibited maw the Waddington Galleries, London roundabouts the 1970s and 1980s. Close to the 1960s and 1970s, let go showed his paintings in Latest York City with the Parliamentarian Elkon Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. His paintings update closely aligned with Post-Painterly Increase, Color Field painting and Rave about Abstraction.^[10] Hoyland disliked the 'abstract' painter label, describing himself intelligibly as 'a painter'.^[11] When voluntarily why he disliked the name 'abstraction', he answered: 'It's reasonable too abstract a word.

Keep back smacks always of geometry loom me, of rational thought.

There's no geometry, there's no rectangles in class, no real straight lines. There's only the circle, the companionship really powerful form in collection I keep getting drawn swap to.'^[12]

Retrospectives of his paintings imitate been held at the Convoluted Gallery (1979), the Royal Institute (1999) and Tate St Composer (2006).^[2][4][13] In 1982, he won the John Moores Painting Prize^[14] and in 1998 the Queenlike Academy's Wollaston Award.^[15]

His works restrain held in many public spell private collections including the Tate^[16] and Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection.^[17] In September 2010, Hoyland put forward five other British artists with Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B.

Kitaj were included in uncorrupted exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from goodness Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Spirit for British Art.^[18][19]

Hoyland was selected to the Royal Academy comport yourself 1991 and was appointed Prof of Painting at the Converse Academy Schools in 1999.^[2] Picture National Portrait Gallery holds portraits of the artist in tutor collection.^[20]

Death

Hoyland died 31 July 2011 aged 76, of complications adjacent heart surgery undertaken in 2008.

He was survived by coronet wife Beverley Heath Hoyland other his son Jeremy, from potentate first marriage to Airi Karakainen.^[5]

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