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Patrick HughesIdeal Home By Patrick Hughes2023
2023
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Patrick Hughes
b. 1939 British
Ideal Home
Oil on panel
Signed, titled and dated “Ideal Home / Patrick Hughes / 2023”
Patrick Hughes, a London artist, creates works that blend painting, sculpture and optical illusion, offering a dynamic visual experience that changes with the viewer's perspective. His innovative approach challenges traditional art boundaries, making each piece strikingly interactive and infused with humor, engagement and originality. His style is an aesthetic blend of modern and classic elements found in this remarkable composition titled Ideal Home, emphasizing both design and functionality.
Hughes takes his viewer on a journey through a beautiful home interior—from the bright yellow foyer, through the study, music room and ocean blue kitchen, to the final, peaceful space of the bedroom. Each room is illuminated by natural light, with open windows that draw the observer into a picturesque garden adorned with stately statues. The geometric rugs and chromatic transitions across the rooms enhance the visual experience, creating an alluring space for anyone with a discerning eye for beautifully orchestrated interiors.
Patrick Hughes coined the term reverspective for his unique art form, which he describes as "perspective in reverse." Using traditional one-point perspective, Hughes reverses the process by extending lines outward on three-dimensional planes, creating the illusion of movement in static paintings. His reverspective technique involves cutting wooden panels into shapes that protrude from the wall. Hughes manipulates 2D images to fit these shapes and then precisely paints them in oil, emphasizing meticulous lines, light and shadow. This complex process typically takes months to complete, illustrating Hughes' dedication to detail and illusion in his work.
Hughes created his first reverse perspective work in 1964 with a life-sized room for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London entitled Sticking-Out Room, thus beginning his long fascination with perspective illusions. He has since then authored several books on themes relating to his art, including visual paradoxes and oxymorons, and he holds a doctorate in science from King’s College in London for his work in the psychology of perception. Today, his work resides in the permanent collection of the British Library and the British Academy in London.
Dated 2023
Panel: 20 1/8" high x 94 5/8" wide (51.12 x 240.35 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2" high x 102 1/8" wide x 9 3/4" wide (69.85 x 259.40 x 24.77 cm)
- Creator:Patrick Hughes (1939, British)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 102.13 in (259.42 cm)Depth: 9.75 in (24.77 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
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Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England, in October 1939. He is a self taught artist who plays with perspective, optical illusions and figure-ground relationships. Building upon the work of M.C. Escher, Rene Magritte and Richard Artschwager, Hughes' paintings form a bridge between painting which is static and two-dimensional, and sculpture which is not.
Hughes held his first exhibition in 1961 and went on to develop his distinct perspective studies in the early years of his career. In calling the main body of his work, “Reverspective,” Hughes aims to warp our perceptions by constructing solid space through the use of sculpted painting.
Hughes builds his sculptured paintings using board which is taped together, gessoed and sanded until it is a pristine wall relief which mimics the shape of space. He then goes on to compose images of rectilinear forms such as buildings, books, doorways, boxes and gallery walls. The resultant painted reliefs baffle his audience by demonstrating how deceptive appearances can be. His Surrealist horizons imply deep space while the surface of the painting appears flat. Yet upon walking toward these seemingly flat paintings, they loom out at us, creating a disorientating, moving experience. Hughes challenges the assumptions of our eye and our brain, raising important questions about human perception and the subconscious.
Soon after his first appearance on the London art scene Hughes began exhibiting with Angela Flowers Gallery and continued to do so for over 40 years. In addition, he has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions across the UK and in America. As well as painting, he has also written and collated three books on visual and verbal rhetoric.
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