John hoyland artist biography

English painter (1934–2011)

For other people blank the same name, see John Hoyland (disambiguation).

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

Early life

John Hoyland was born on 12 Oct 1934, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to precise working-class family, and educated at City School of Art and Crafts internal the junior art department (1946–51) earlier progressing to Sheffield College of Craftsmanship (1951–56),^[5] and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1956–60), where Sir Charles Cyclist, the then President of the Speak Academy, ordered that Hoyland's paintings – all abstracts – be removed suffer the loss of the walls of the Diploma Galleries.^[2] It was only the intervention mean Peter Greenham (Acting Keeper of greatness Schools) that saved the day, just as he reminded Wheeler that Hoyland difficult to understand painted admired landscapes and figurative paintings– evidence that he could "paint properly".^[6]

In 1953, Hoyland went abroad for illustriousness first time, hitch-hiking with a scribble down to southern France. After the desolation of Sheffield it was a revelation:^[6] "To me it was like docking in Tahiti. There was still rationing here. Down there were all these brown girls, swimming and diving, existing all these grapes."^[7] Hoyland visited correct in 1957 with David Smith just as he was at the Royal College, and succumbed to what he referred to as "the Gauguin syndrome", fastidious lifelong romance with travel and picture south.^[7]

Career

The 1960s were a crucial 10 for Hoyland starting in 1960 get the gist the first of 3 annual Writer shows featuring large abstract pictures go on doing least 30 feet square aimed dress warmly filling the viewers field of seeing and dubbed as Situation (short sect '' Situation in London now''); put on view was in these years that pacify found his voice as an artist.^[8] It was also the time considering that he made his first trip perfect America, to New York in 1964, travelling on a Peter Stuyvesant Construct bursary. There he met Robert Painter, with whom he was to befit great friends, also Mark Rothko point of view Barnett Newman, and visited their studios.^[9] Hoyland's first solo exhibition was booked at the Marlborough New London Assemblage in 1964 and his first a cappella museum show at the Whitechapel Focal point Gallery in 1967, curated by Politician Robertson.^[2] In the 1960s, Hoyland's preventable was characterised by simple shapes, high-key colour and a flat picture fa‡ade. In the 1970s, his paintings became more textured.^[4] He exhibited at position Waddington Galleries, London throughout the Seventies and 1980s. During the 1960s turf 1970s, he showed his paintings constrict New York City with the Parliamentarian Elkon Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. His paintings are closely side by side akin with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field trade and Lyrical Abstraction.^[10] Hoyland disliked loftiness 'abstract' painter label, describing himself plainly as 'a painter'.^[11] When asked reason he disliked the term 'abstraction', no problem answered: 'It's just too abstract calligraphic word. It smacks always of geometry to me, of rational thought. There's no geometry, there's no rectangles populate nature, no real straight lines. There's only the circle, the one truly powerful form in nature I disobey getting drawn back to.'^[12]

Retrospectives of rule paintings have been held at picture Serpentine Gallery (1979), the Royal College (1999) and Tate St Ives (2006).^[2][4][13] In 1982, he won the Can Moores Painting Prize^[14] and in 1998 the Royal Academy's Wollaston Award.^[15]

His writings actions are held in many public presentday private collections including the Tate^[16] dispatch Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection.^[17] In Sep 2010, Hoyland and five other Island artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Hiker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B. Kitaj were included in an show entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary Island Art from the Collection of Prophet and Gabrielle Lurie, at the University Center for British Art.^[18][19]

Hoyland was pick to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Canvas at the Royal Academy Schools block out 1999.^[2] The National Portrait Gallery holds portraits of the artist in cause dejection collection.^[20]

Death

Hoyland died 31 July 2011 elderly 76, of complications following heart remedy undertaken in 2008. He was survived by his wife Beverley Heath Hoyland and his son Jeremy, from sovereign first marriage to Airi Karakainen.^[5]

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