Howard Hodgkin’s artwork for London 2012 Olympics has turned out to be brilliant, it has the unique property of pulling at emotional and physiological strings.  There has been the usual outcry from conservative voices about how this ‘non-figurative’ work does not speak to Londoners. In fact Hodgkin sets up an aesthetic standard for Londoners that they must and will rise to. Hodgkin calls this work swimming. The blue grades out