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Artist David Hockney. His paintings.

I was researching David Hockney and I found him very interesting and inspiring. I I have not used paint yet for my brief but I like Hockneys use of colour and might try some of that style later on in my work.

He is now 87 years old and still works, often on an IPAD. He is considered one of the top influential artists of the 20th century. His style is Pop Art. His work is so bright and full of life and colour. In November 2018, his work,Portrait of an artist sold for 70 million sterling pounds, the highest up to then, for any living artist.

Hockney is also a photographer. The photographs are interesting with lots of movement and are thought provoking.

Makes you look at the image rather than just browse past it.

I would like to try and use some different editing on my images.

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Fab! David Hockney at Kunstmuseum Luzern.     Here • George Lawson and Wayne Sleep • from 1972-75.     Love his series of large double portraits which Hockney began in 1968. Real couples who were in Hockney’s life, portrayed in their home environment in his signature style from that period. Paintings that are both realistic and highly simplified.     This painting shows Wayne Sleep, one of the star performers of London’s Royal Ballet and the antiquarian book dealer George Lawson.     Set in Lawson’s tiny flat in Wigmore Place, Hockney began to paint this double portrait in 1972. After spending six months working on it, trying to finish it in time for his exhibition in December at Kasmin’s gallery in London, he felt that the painting had defeated him.   He decided not to exhibit it and abandoned the painting in 1973 as unfinished, although he briefly resumed working on it in 1975, before again abandoning it.     It remained unfinished…   Can you tell?       #davidhockney #hockney #art #modernart #contemporaryart #artist #painter #painting #acrylic #canvas #storytelling #interior #home #dance #fashion #religious #mythological #portrait #portraiture #realism #renaissance #arthistory #figuration #figurative #figurativeart #theamazingpoppingeyes #kunstmuseum #london #luzern https://www.instagram.com/p/Cji6ueeLVdY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The substrate for this collage Dreaming of Summer is a card from the most impressive pack of pre-exhibition materials that I received from the most prolific artist I can think of besides #davidhockney perhaps. Thank you @emilypatrickartist for the inspiration and if you ever decide to teach marketing courses I certainly need them! #art #londonartist #kolaj #collagist #collagenottinghill #contemporarycollagemagazine#contemporarycollage #dailycollage #collageoftheday #edinburghcollagecollective#collagecollective #collagecommunity #collageclub #analogcollage #kunst #art #londonartist #kolaj #collagist #collagenottinghill #contemporarycollagemagazine#contemporarycollage #dailycollage #collageoftheday #edinburghcollagecollective#collagecollective #collagecommunity #collageclub #analogcollage #kunst #collagewave #cutandpaste #moderncollage #collagecollectiveco #collagecreatives #collageartwork #theideafoundation #loveanalogcollage #artofinstagram #kyivcollage #thessalonikicollageclub1 #FindYourInnerFinn #Visitfinland https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDCi15K932/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

the beautiful tapestry

David Hockney :: Carrowby Hill, 1997

@davidhockneyofficial

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

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"One of the most painful realizations we must come to as artists is that the tale of the artistic trade-off being eventually satisfied is a myth. Whatever maladjustments or cruelties we felt we were dealt as a child remain with us forever, and that Achilles heel or Cassandra truth about us--that awful thing that dogs us perpetually--is never alleviated by applause or money or recognition by those we feel have what we lack or those who witness what we do. 

"What the true artists have done--and all true artists are also survivors, so rid yourself of the self-image of an open wound--is to incorporate all of these flaws into the beautiful tapestry they have decided they will become. They do not delude themselves about their flaws; they glory in them and put them to use. Whatever else, these flaws are what help us to write what we write, or act what is acted. And once you're mature, you find that that is no small reward."

--Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982

[Follies Of God]

In honor of LGBTQ History Month and celebrating the history of LGBTQ community by sharing a quote by David Hockney from “Speak it's name! : quotations by and about gay men and women.”

“The openness was through the paintings, it wasn’t through anything else. In those days I didn’t talk very much. I was aware that I was homosexual long before that, it’s just that I hadn’t done anything about it. … Then the moment you decide you have to face what you’re like, you get so excited, it’s something off your back. I don’t care what they think at all now. In a sense, oddly enough, it kind of normalizes you.” – David Hockney

Speak it's name! : quotations by and about gay men and women Edited by Christopher Tinker ; with an introduction by Simon Callow London : National Portrait Gallery, 2016. 336 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 20 cm English 2016 HOLLIS number: 990148705380203941

“Barry Humphries” by #DavidHockney More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/11/05/barry-humphries-by-david-hockney/ #painting #pittura #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #amazing #artwork #instacool #instaart #followart #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea #artmuseum #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #arthistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CkkwZvloO3a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

MONEY-SAVING TIPS! Early 1990s. First flat of my own in London. Desperately wanted a Basquiat for the walls but lacked the requisite squillions of $$$. So I made my own - plus a couple of Jasper Johns-es, a Hockney and a Bacon. I reckon I saved myself a good $100 million at the time 🧐 They’re up in the loft now of course - saving more money by acting as insulation! #the100milliondollarloft #the10poundloft #art #diy #makeityourself #savemoney #moneysavingtips #starvingartist #london #early90s #1990s #basquiat #jeanmichelbasquiat #jasperjohns #francisbacon #davidhockney #artgallery #makeyourowngallery #makeyourownart #drawing #millions #artmarket https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUriz0oSVB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sans doute le décor arty qui correspond vraiment à mon âme vibrante ce matin. il est à Manhattan #Repost @larrys_list Interior designer Jennifer Weisberg from JLW Interiors conceived a carnival of shapes and colors to decorate this dining room for a collector couple's apartment in Manhattan, New York. ​ ​Here is a backlit ceiling panel of verre eglomisé by Miriam Ellner, screen by David Hockney, Kimberly Denman chairs covered in mohair from Sahco, a brass and lacquer table by India Mahdavi on a Rug Art carpet, and two bronze sculptures by Paolo Staccioli. ​ ​#JenniferWeisberg #JLWInteriors #MiriamEllner #DavidHockney #KimberlyDenman #Sahco #IndiaMahdavi #PaoloStaccioli #ColourfulDesign #GoldInterior #LuxuryHome #AmazingHomes #ArtCollector #DesignCollector #LarrysList #CollectorCrib ​ ​Via @kimberlydenman and @galeriemagazine ​Photography by @nathanschroderphoto​ https://www.instagram.com/p/ChtkLFQsV2t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

David Hockney, Discord Merely Magnifies from The Blue Guitar, 1976–77, published 1977

David Hockney

@ArtistHockney

PHOTOGRAPHING A PLACE, A SITE: DAVID HOCKNEY - PHOTO COLLAGES . JOINERS - 

David Hockney is a British painter who also experimented with the medium of photography. In his photographic collages, which he calls “JOINTERS”, he creates composite images out of photographs, first as grids of polaroids and later in more organic, overlapping constructions. To make these collages or joiners, Hockney captured scenes from multiple vantage points and meticulously pieced them together, offering varied perspectives within a single work (a nod to the cubist collages of Pablo Picasso and George Braque).

The above collages from the Zen garden at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto were taken in two distinct ways: for the top image Hockney walked along the garden (represented by his feet at the bottom - the red and black socks) and took photos as he was walking (the camera was “moving”); for the bottom image Hockney/the camera was stationary (you see his leg) and he moved the camera from left to right, up and down as he was photographing the garden......two very different impressions of the garden; one is “flattened” almost like a plan view (no perspective), the other is dramatically shaped and spatial showing the enclosure of the garden.

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Lu // Jamie Perry - Oasis // Karoshorts in Kniestrümpfen: Ein meditativer Ausflug ins Nirgendwo

Leute, ihr steht vor einem Gemälde, das euch in eine andere Welt entführt. Eine Welt, in der die Zeit stillzustehen scheint und die Langeweile fast greifbar ist. Das ist "Oasis" von Jamie Perry. Ein Mann in Karoshorts und Kniestrümpfen, füllt einen Pool auf. Aber nicht irgendeinen Pool. Es ist dieser verdammt berühmte Pool von Mr. David Hockney, ich schwöre. Doch im Gegensatz zu Hockneys vibrierenden Farben und dem Schwimmer ist hier alles still. Keine Berge, kein Schwimmer, nur ein Opa mit einem Gartenschlauch. Einem sehr sehr langsamen grünen Gartenschlauch. Man kann fast hören, wie die Verdunstung den Zufluss überholt. Während Hockneys Poolbild die lebendige kalifornische Sonne feiert, liegt Perrys Pool in einem Niemandsland, umgeben von brauner Erde und einem langweiligen blauen Himmel. Der Pool, mit seinem unnatürlich blauen Wasser, steht im krassen Gegensatz zur kargen Landschaft um ihn herum. Es ist, als hätte jemand mitten in der Wüste ein Stück „Glitzeblau“ geschaffen. Und dann den Rest vernachlässigt. Ja, und dann ist da noch dieser Mann, der den Pool mit seiner Geduld füllt. Bekleidet mit Hut und einem roten Kurzarmhemd, fast meditativ. Wenn Hockney der König der Pools ist, dann ist Perry der Zen-Meister unter den Poolmalern.

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David Hockney Exhibition At Lightroom Kings Cross London N1C