Carmen Herrera
Core to Carmen Herrera’s painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of colour. A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera creates symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement, rhythm and spatial tension across the canvas with the most unobtrusive application of paint. As she moved towards pure, geometric abstraction in the post-war years in Paris, she exhibited alongside Theo van Doesburg, Max Bill and Piet Mondrian and a younger generation of Latin American artists, such as members of the Venezuelan Los Disidentes, Brazilian Concretists and the Argentinian Grupo Madi.
Herrera's simplicity and use of the formal elements within her work have been influential in adapting my own work, I have taken her use of colour and geometric abstraction along with her use of crisp lines and incorporated them into my own prints by deconstructing my landscape photography.
Core to Carmen Herrera’s painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of colour. A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera creates symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement, rhythm and spatial tension across the canvas with the most unobtrusive application of paint. As she moved towards pure, geometric abstraction in the post-war years in Paris, she exhibited alongside Theo van Doesburg, Max Bill and Piet Mondrian and a younger generation of Latin American artists, such as members of the Venezuelan Los Disidentes, Brazilian Concretists and the Argentinian Grupo Madi.
Herrera's simplicity and use of the formal elements within her work have been influential in adapting my own work, I have taken her use of colour and geometric abstraction along with her use of crisp lines and incorporated them into my own prints by deconstructing my landscape photography.
Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens was a British painter best known for his abstract, panoramic depictions of woodland landscapes near his home in West Sussex. His works utilise abbreviated fields of colour perceived from a landscape rather than exact forms. Born on March 3, 1893 in London, England, Hitchens went on to study at the Royal Academy of Art and became a part of the London Group of artists, which also included Leon Kossoff. Hitchens then moved out to the countryside after his London studio was bombed during World War II, and he would live out of a caravan and paint his surroundings for the remainder of his life. His work was exhibited at the British Pavilion in the 1956 Venice Biennale, and today, his paintings are in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, and the Courtauld Institute in London, among others.
HItchen's paintings are welcoming and exciting in the way they are painted, the loose, rash and abstract brush strokes visible create a vision of the landscape depicted. The use of block colour rather that detail encouraged me to try and adapt my own painting style and create much looser paintings of my own.
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