Symbol of love.IN THE END, LOVE IS TO BE PRACTICED rather than written out. Howard Hodgkins's Fruit does not attempt to paint a real fruit, but rather to recall and to celebrate the thing that has given such delight. It is a tiny picture, with several layerings of rich red border, but the remembered fruit escapes its confines, overwhelming the viewer with its richness and glory. He is painting a memory of intensity, choosing it as his theme, forgetting himself in appreciation of it. This is the perfect symbol of what it is to love. By SISTER WENDY BECKETT Sister Wendy Beckett (born February 25 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC. of Norfolk, England, well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books. Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 888-342-5357). Painting: Fruit, 1988-89, by Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (born August 6, 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. Howard Hodgkin was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset. He then studied at the Camberwell Art School and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, where Edward Piper studied (private collection). |
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