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This significant and innovative figure of twentieth-century British art played a major role in the development
of post-war abstract art.
At Tate St Ives, it is celebrated in a retrospective exhibition, the first for 20 years, which covers more than fifty years of work from 1943 to 1996.
Far from the conventional retrospective, with a chronologi- cal display, it offers a succession of spaces and juxtapositions throughout his career to show the creative process.
It reveals on a large scale the complete evolution
of his abstract language in his dynamic of aesthetic wealth saturated with colors.
It is indeed a rare opportunity to discover the scope and breadth of Heron’s painting as well as his constant attachment to the subject of color. In 1962, he explicitly stated that «color is both the subject and the means; form and content; the image and the meaning, in my painting today. «
Heron’s abstraction is a direct response to light, an art of pure visual sensation.
Patrick Heron
Square Green with Orange, Violet and Lemon : 1969 1969
Oil paint on canvas
1524 x 1524 mm
Private collection
© Estate of Patrick Heron. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018
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