因本书是与二十年来帕特里克•赫伦的**次重要的作品回顾展配套出版的，所以它将包含Heron***的画作，从20世纪40年代到他职业生涯晚期的作品，旁边配有发人深省的文字。帕特里克•赫伦（1920年-1999年）在二十世纪的艺术界占有独特地位。作为最早运用抽象的英国画家之一，他在战后艺术的发展中发挥了重要作用。赫伦对20世纪50年代美国艺术的爆发持支持态度，并在**次杰出抽象表现主义时受到了强烈影响，但马蒂斯，波纳德和布拉克等欧洲画家仍然对他的作品产生了根本性的影响。这部有启发性的出版物将介绍赫伦从20世纪40年代到他职业生涯晚期的画作，展示他充满活力的抽象语言的完整演变，并提供一个****的机会探索这位现代大师的比例、颜色和构图感的广度。深思性的分析将介绍和说明赫伦的视觉策略，包括自主、形式平等、边缘意识、比例和不对称等主题。

Published to accompany the first major Patrick Heron retrospective in two decades, this book will feature the best of Heron's paintings, from the 1940s to his late career, alongside thought-provoking text. Patrick Heron (1920-99) held a unique position in twentieth-century art. As one of the first British artists to embrace abstraction, he played a major role in the development of postwar art. Heron welcomed the eruption of American art in the 1950s and was strongly affected by his first encounters with abstract expressionism yet European artists such as Matisse, Bonnard and Braque remained a fundamental influence on his work. This dialogue was played out in paintings that pursued the ideal of an art as pure visual sensation. This illuminating publication will range from Heron's paintings of the 1940s to his late career, showing the full evolution of his vibrant abstract language and offering a unique opportunity to explore the extent of this modern master's sense of scale, colour and composition. Reflective analysis will introduce and explain Heron's visual strategies including themes on autonomy, formal equality, edge consciousness, scale and asymmetry. This unique approach allows Heron's practice to be reviewed from an entirely fresh perspective.