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Hockney's pictures
A \"volume charting almost fifty years of ... creativity across a range of media, [this is a] retrospective of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century. The pieces are selected and organized thematically by David Hockney himself, tracking his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. Including more than 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, [it] shows the evolution and diversity of Hockney's paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography\"--Amazon.com.
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Exhibition on screen. Season 5, episode 3, David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts : a bigger picture 2012 & 82 portraits and one still-life 2016
Widely considered Britain's most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation whose exhibitions in London, New York, Paris, and beyond, have attracted millions of visitors worldwide. Featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with the artist, this revealing film focuses on two blockbuster Hockney exhibitions held in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Streaming Video
A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book. They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16 chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and insistently link 'art' to human skills and human needs. Each chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the 'Mona Lisa' beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? Energized by two lifetimes of looking at pictures, combined with a great artist's 70-year experience of experimentation as he makes them, this profoundly moving and enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade.
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December to May
Following a minor stroke, David Hockney almost gave up on his annual Spring drawings, but when he returned to the Yorkshire Wolds, he was as inspired by the landscape as ever. (Quotes from original text)
Journal Article
A bigger message : conversations with David Hockney
\"A record of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, this title reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface\"--Publisher's description.
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