Timothy Hyman

Timothy Hyman RA (born 1946) is a British figurative painter, art writer and curator. He has published monographs on both Sienese Painting and on Pierre Bonnard. He has written extensively on art and film, has been a regular contributor to Times Literary Supplement and has curated exhibitions at the Tate, ICA and Hayward galleries. Hyman is a portraitist, but is best known for his narrative renditions of London. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Beckmann and Bonnard, as well as Lorenzetti and Brueghel, he explores his personal relationship, both real and mythological, with the city where he lives and works. He employs vivid colours, shifting scale and perspectives, to create visionary works. He was elected an RA in 2011.

Life and career

Hyman was born in Hove, Sussex in 1946. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art between 1963 and 1967. Since 1980 he has had nine London solo exhibitions. His earliest publications were on film (8½ as an Anatomy of Melancholy, Sight and Sound, 1974) and on literature (The Modus Vivendi of John Cowper Powys, 1972). He began to publish articles on painting in the mid-seventies in The London Magazine,[1] and was a contributing editor to Artscribe.[2] In 1979, he curated the controversial exhibition Narrative Paintings at the ICA in London and the Arnolfini in Bristol.[3] In 1980 and 1982, he was a Visiting Professor in Baroda, (Vadodara) India, and completed several extensive British Council lecture tours. Timothy Hyman has been Artist in Residence at Lincoln Cathedral, Sandown Racecourse and, most recently, at Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. Since 1982, he has been married to the author Judith Ravenscroft. He lives in North London.

Hyman has written on the work of many artists including Pierre Bonnard and the painters of the Sienese School as well as more contemporary artists, such as Howard Hodgkin[4] R.B. Kitaj and the Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar[5] Since 1990, he has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and has written on a variety of subjects including: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner[6] Henry Darger[7] and German Romanticism.[8] Hyman has also written extensively on film, including articles on Fellini,[9] Andrei Tarkovsky[10] and Derek Jarman[11] In 1998, his monograph on Bonnard was published by Thames and Hudson, and, in the same year, his book on Bhupen Khakhar was published in India.

Hyman and Roger Malbert curated the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition Carnivalesque[12] in 2000.

In 2001, along with the cultural historian Patrick Wright, Hyman was lead curator for the acclaimed Stanley Spencer retrospective at Tate Britain.[13] He also co-curated the major exhibition British Vision at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, in 2007-8.

Hyman is also well known for his lectures that investigate the tangents and marginalia of art history. He has been a visiting lecturer in art at the Slade School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Central St. Martins and The Royal College of Art for many years as well as lecturing at The Working Men's College, The Tate, the National Gallery, London and MOMA in New York.

Exhibitions

Awards and prizes

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "RB Kitaj: Avatar of Ezra", The London Magazine, September 1977
  2. ↑ "The Subject Matter of Cezanne's Bathers", Artscribe, June Issue, 1978
  3. ↑ Narrative Paintings. Catalogue essay, Arnolfini. 1979
  4. ↑ "Howard Hodgkin". Studio International magazine. May–June 1975
  5. ↑ "Indian Views". (including sections on Rabindranath Tagore, Behari Mukerjee & Bhupen Khakhar) The London Magazine, July 1979
  6. ↑ "Kirchner's Dance", Times Literary Supplement, No. 5234, July 2003
  7. ↑ "Henry Darger & Adolf Wölfli", Times Literary Supplement, 30 October 1998
  8. ↑ "Philosophy & Reverie: the contemplative ironies of German Romantic Art" Times Literary Supplement, No. 4769, August 1994
  9. ↑ "8½ as an Anatomy of Melancholy", Sight & Sound magazine, Summer 1974. Reprinted in Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism (edited by Peter Bondanella). Oxford University Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-19-502273-5
  10. ↑ "Tarkovsky's Solaris". Film Quarterly, Spring 1976
  11. ↑ "Interview with Derek Jarman", The London Magazine, October 1980
  12. ↑ Carnivalesque, Review by Merlin James, Burlington Magazine, August 2001, Number 1181, Volume 143
  13. ↑ "Stanley Spencer retrospective at Tate Britain", review by Peter Campbell, London Review of Books, 19 April 2001, Volume 23. No.8
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