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Line on Turquoise, No.25 - July, Oil on Canvas Painting by Paul Huxley B. 1938, 19632
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Medium: Oil on canvas
127 x 127 cm
50 x 50 in
Signed, titled and dated
The singular line that snakes its way up the center of Paul Huxley’s luminous turquoise canvas brings forth the metaphysical concerns that occupied the minds of Huxley and his post-modernist contemporaries. Huxley toys with the relationship of image and form, exploring the ambiguous moment at which his line moves from painted mark to image and vice versa. The lines meandering shape lulls the viewer to affording it associative identities.
The critic David Thompson commented in 1964 on Huxley’s abstractions, saying he “Huxley would not particularise them, to himself or to the spectator, but they would not be valid if one did not feel oneself wanting to name them. Huxley is concerned with the metaphor: as with many modern painters, an unexpected juxtaposition of words, even in a dictionary, can spark an image for him; he has sometimes used green precisely because it is a colour with unavoidable associations. He is committed to a type of painting that uses the simplest possible elements. But they have to contain multiple meanings, a condensed complexity of effect.”
This painting is a characteristic example of his works that evoke enlarged brushstrokes, rendering the singular line the subject matter. Such works made up his first solo exhibition at the Rowan Gallery, London, 1963, in which Line on Turquoise likely made its debut.
Paul Huxley was born in London in 1938. He studied at Harrow School of Art from 1951 until 1956 when, at the age of seventeen, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools where he graduated in 1960.
His first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London in 1963. In 1964 he was selected by Bryan Robertson for 'The New Generation' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the exhibition which first introduced emerging artists of the sixties to a wider public. Works in this show from Huxley's 'fluid series' of paintings became highly influential within the genre of new abstract painting at the time and won him first prize in the Stuyvesant Travel Awards. The award took him to the USA where he met many of the leading American artists of the period such as Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, often visiting their studios and in some cases forming lasting friendships.
In 1965 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship that funded a two year residency in New York culminating in his first solo show there. During this time he made the initial studies for his 'key series', works in which he deconstructed the traditional monocentric format of abstract painting. These were seminal to the development of the divided canvases that have characterised his work ever since.
In 1977 the Linbury Trust awarded him a sabbatical year away from part time teaching. An intensive period of work resulted in the grey 'studio series' which were the first paintings in which Huxley applied a new analysis of cubist and surrealist sources; possibly the first instance in abstract painting where conscious historical references were made to its modernist origins.
The 'studio series' reintroduced the theme of the standing form that had previously been a feature in works of the late sixties and now was continued in subsequent paintings, for instance in the Modus Operandi series of the late 1980s and the Anima Animus series of the 1990s, where Huxley presented the concept of interactions between differing hypothetical renderings of image, flat colour field, line, chiaroscuro and collage.
Over the last four decades Huxley's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Britain and internationally. Recent projects have included large-scale wall drawings in Chichester and London, an ongoing series of paintings on a Chinese theme and, most recently, a series of sculptural maquettes towards a larger project. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including Deutsche Bank.
Huxley has also taught in art schools throughout his career and has contributed to policy in the academic and curatorial fields. He was a member of the advisory panels for the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Serpentine Gallery, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, acting for a period as chairman of its Exhibitions Committee, and chairman of the Art & Design Research Exercise for the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
In 1987 he was editor of 'Exhibition Road - Painters from the Royal College of Art', a book to coincide with the exhibition of the same title which he co-curated with Susie Allen. For their joint work on this show the National Art Collections Fund (now The Art Fund) gave them an award for Outstanding Service to the Arts. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts since 1987 acting as their Treasurer for fourteen years until 2014 and for a brief period as President.
He was Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art from 1986 until 1998 after which he was elected Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus. Many of his students from these years such as Dinos Chapman, Nigel Cook, Dexter Dalwood, Andrew Grassie, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe and Chris Ofili are now established artists contributing to the new British art which has been so widely acclaimed.
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- Dimensions:Height: 50 in (127 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Kingsclere, GB
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