About David Hockney - British Artist
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David Hockney - his life and works - paintings, drawings, camerawork, exhibitions, books, videos
David Hockney (1937-present) has been voted the UK's most popular living artist.
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Copyright and Hockney
Note that works by this artist are not in the public domain. Hockney is alive and all his work is protected by international copyright laws until at least 70 years after his death.
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ESSENTIAL DAVID HOCKNEY
David Hockney - the one and only authorised website
It took me years to find this....................
I get people writing to me all the time for this link!
This website documents the life, works and legacy of David Hockney. Note in particular the terms for access to the website which states This site and contents are copyright David Hockney and may not be reproduced anywhere any time in any form
- DAVID HOCKNEY - hockneypictures - authorised website
- The only authorized David Hockney website
- DAVID HOCKNEY : POSTERS
- The authorised website provides 15 pages of David Hockney posters
- DAVID HOCKNEY: STORE
- The Hockney Online Shop sells the 15 Sketchbooks DVD
- DAVID HOCKNEY: GALLERIES
- Details of all galleries:
Annely Juda Fine Art - London
L.A. Louver - Venice, CA 90291
Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, IL 60611
Salts Mill: The 1852 Gallery, Saltaire, Yorkshire, England - DAVID HOCKNEY : UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
- Upcoming exhibitions of work by David Hockney
- DAVID HOCKNEY: PAINTINGS
- David Hockney - Paintings - catalogued by decade
- DAVID HOCKNEY: DRAWINGS
- David Hockney - Drawings - catalogued by decade
- DAVID HOCKNEY : PHOTOS / COLLAGES
- David Hockney - Photos - Photographic Collages and Composite Collages
- DAVID HOCKNEY : GRAPHICS / Homemade Prints
- David Hockney - Homemade Prints
- DAVID HOCKNEY : STAGE DESIGN
- David Hockney - Stage Design
- DAVID HOCKNEY : GRAPHICS / Lithographs
- David Hockney - Lithographs
- DAVID HOCKNEY : GRAPHICS / Rake's Progress
- David Hockney - Etchings
- DAVID HOCKNEY : GRAPHICS / Computer Drawings
- David Hockney - Computer Drawings - catalogued by decade
- DAVID HOCKNEY: WORKS / Paper Pools
- David Hockney - Paper pools
- DAVID HOCKNEY : TV-VIDEO
- A collection of videos made for TV
David Hockney - Life and Works
An overview of his life and works
Hockney's ambitious pursuits stretch across a vast range of media, from photographic collages to full-scale opera stagings and from fax drawings to an intensive art historical study of the optical devices of Old Masters.
- DAVID HOCKNEY : ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY
- Illustrated biography and chronology from the authorised website
- DAVID HOCKNEY : CHRONOLOGY - 1937-74
- Chronology 1937-74
- DAVID HOCKNEY Chronology 1975-90
- Chronology 1975-90
- DAVID HOCKNEY Chronology 1991-present
- Chronology 1991-present
- DAVID HOCKNEY : BIBLIOGRAPHY
- David Hockney - bibliography from the authorised website
- DAVID HOCKNEY : EDUCATION & AWARDS
- David Hockney - education and awards (authorised website)
- DAVID HOCKNEY : ARTICLES
- Articles about David Hockney (authorised website)
- David Hockney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
- David Hockney RA - Painters - Royal Academicians - Royal Academy of Arts
- Royal Academicians are artists and architects who are members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Royal Academicians are elected by current Academicians and are leading painters, sculptors, print-makers and architects.
- Artists' Papers Register: Authority Record - David Hockney
- David Hockney in the Artists's Papers Register: A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- David Hockney appointed to Order of Merit | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
- Artist David Hockney has been appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Merit by the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced.
- Hockney OM, CH, RA - Telegraph
- Telegraph View: Some honours are so exclusive as to confer nothing but
admiration and respect upon the recipient. - Art Quotations by David Hockney - The Painter's Keys Resource of Art Quotations
- Art Quotations by David Hockney
BOOK: David Hockney - The Biography
Published in UK November 2011; in the USA in April 2012
This NEW book is being described as the final say on one of Britain's best-loved, colourful and controversial artists. This first volume - subtitled "A Rake's Progress" sees Christopher Sykes begin to explore the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in the UK today.
This is a link to the published version available via amazon.co.uk
followed by the version to be published in the USA in April 2012 - and available to pre-order
David Hockney: The Biography
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BOOK: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
By Martin Gayford
This NEW BOOK by Martin Gayford is a record of private conversations between him and David Hockney over the last decade. Published Thames & Hudson (26 Sep 2011)
... 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. These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue. (Product description)
Hockney's awards and accolades
David Hockney OM, CH, RA
Hockney has received a vast number of accolades throughout his career, including nine honorary degrees from institutions worldwide.
His major UK awards designate him David Hockney OM, CH, RA
In 1962, he was awarded the Royal College of Art gold medal in recognition of his mastery as a draughtsman and his innovative paintings.
In 1991:
* Hockney was elected as a painter member of the Royal Academy of Arts and became entitled to put RA after his name
* Hockney became a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles
In 1992 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York
In 1993 he received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles.
In 1997
* he was made a Companion of Honour, a recognition from the British and Commonwealth Order for his outstanding achievement in the arts. He was also included on the Queen's Birthday Honours List the same year. This entitles him to put CH after his name.
* he was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2003, Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy.
In 2012, he was appointed to the prestigious Order of Merit (OM) by the Queen. This is a personal appointment.
"The Order of Merit, founded by 1902 by King Edward VII, is a special mark of honour conferred by the Sovereign on individuals of exceptional distinction in the arts, learning, sciences and other areas such as public service. Appointments to the Order are in the Sovereign's personal gift and ministerial advice is not required. The Order is restricted to 24 members as well as additional foreign recipients."
British Monarchy Website - Appointments to the Order of Merit, 1 January 2012
He is thought to have refused a knighthood in the past. However a knighthood is a far lesser distinction than to be awarded the OM
Hockney on Hirst
"you need the eye, the hand and the heart. Two won't do"
David Hockney (commenting in an interview when asked about the works of Damien Hirst)
Interviews with David Hockney
David Hockney usually gives interviews within the context of a new exhibition or a book launch.
* Those given in late 2011 relate to his new autobiography
* Those given in 2012 relate to his new exhibition - David Hockney - A Bigger Picture which occupies all the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts 21 January - 9 April 2012
- BBC - Radio 3 - David Hockney Interview
- Transcript of John Tusa interviewing David Hockney
Includes a link to the podcast. - FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: David Hockney
- The artist talks to Jackie Wullschlager about his love of space and the American west
- New Statesman - Interview: David Hockney
- After decades in California, the painter has returned to his native Yorkshire. He invites the New Statesman exclusively into his studio
- New York Times - Hockney's Long Road Home (15th October 2009)
- Interview related to 28 of paintings of Yorkshire which will go on view in New York in a two-gallery exhibition at PaceWildenstein, both in Midtown and in Chelsea, through Dec. 24 2009
- Andrew Marr meets - and sits for - David Hockney | Art and design | The Guardian
- All this week we will be turning over the cover of G2 to some of Britain's leading artists. David Hockney kicks off our series with an exclusive self portrait. He tells Andrew Marr why a brush captures…
- Damien Hirst's work is an insult to craftsmen, says David Hockney - Telegraph
- David Hockney has criticised Damien Hirst, saying it is "insulting" to craftsmen if artists do not put together their own work.
- David Hockney: a life in art | Culture | The Guardian
- 'The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big.' Interview by Nicholas Wroe
- David Hockney - New Ways of Seeing | Radio Times
- David Hockney - New Ways of Seeing is on radio and where it is available on demand and catch up and to download.
- BBC iPlayer - Sunday Feature: David Hockney - New Ways of Seeing
- Rachel Campbell-Johnston visits artist David Hockney in his Yorkshire studio.
- BBC News - David Hockney rebuffs "greatest living artist" title
- David Hockney says being called "Britain's greatest living artist" has no meaning for him, branding the description "newspaper stuff".
- Hockney Snipes at Hirst, Says Bring Back Boozing: Martin Gayford - Bloomberg
- Artists are useful to society, David Hockney suggested to me last year, because they are natural intellectual rebels.
HOCKNEY'S LANDSCAPE PAINTING
California Landscapes
Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio
David Hockney
Nichols Canyon, c.1980
David Hockney
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David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture
major exhibition of landscape paintings
In 2003, David Hockney embarked on a massive project to paint the Yorkshire Wolds near where he now lives in Bridlington
In January 2012, a major exhibition of Hockney's landscapes opens at the Royal Academy of Arts.
DAVID HOCKNEY RA: A BIGGER PICTURE fills all the main galleries of the Royal Academy - which is a unique tribute for a contemporary member of the RA
This is the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA and will debut at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2012 before transferring first to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and then to Museum Ludwig, Cologne
It features vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, including large-scale works that have been created especially for the very large galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Venues:
* Royal Academy of Arts, London 21 January - 9 April, 2012
* Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 14 May - 30 September 2012
* Museum Ludwig, Cologne 29 October 2012 - 4 February 2013
Prior to the exhibition there was another "A Bigger Picture" - which was a film made by Bruno Wollheim about Hockney returning to live in Yorkshire and paint the Wolds. Scroll down to find out more about the first screening on the BBC 'Imagine' programme and how you can now buy it as a DVD
Reviews of and articles about A Bigger Picture
opens at the Royal Academy of Art - 21 January 2012
These are reviews of and articles about the major exhibition DAVID HOCKNEY RA: A BIGGER PICTURE . Other related items are contained in the section devoted to Interviews with David Hockney
- David Hockney landscapes to vivify Royal Academy | Art and design | The Guardian
- Gallery hopes A Bigger Picture will be the next blockbuster as it unveils its programme for the next 12 months
- Hockney, Freud, Turner and Hirst: art blockbusters of 2012 | Art and design | The Observer
- It's an Olympic year for artists too, and first out of the blocks is David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy.
- David Hockney: A Bigger Picture | The Spectator
- The much loved artist David Hockey will present his new and most ambitious work to date, among a larger body of work spanning 50 years, at the Royal Academy in January 2012, as part of the year's Cultural Olympiad onslaught.
- Blue-sky painting - FT.com
- David Hockney talks about his new landscape show at the Royal Academy and explains why the 'arrival of spring can't be done in one picture'
- BBC News - In pictures: David Hockney at the Royal Academy
- Pictures of the first major UK exhibition showcasing David Hockney's work which is to be displayed at the Royal Academy Of Arts.
- David Hockney proves a man for all seasons as landscapes go on show | Art and design | The Guardian
- Royal Academy exhibition featuring 150 works by artist expected to attract huge numbers
- Hockney goes back to nature | Independent
- The Royal Academy's new exhibition of Yorkshire landscapes shows the artist still grappling with challenges
- David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, Royal Academy of Arts, review - Telegraph
- Whatever game David Hockney is playing in his hotly anticipated Royal Academy show eludes me, says Alastair Sooke.
- David Hockney-mania overloads Royal Academy website - Telegraph
- In the week leading up to the opening day of the exhibition, entitled A Bigger Picture, the online ticketing website and the booking telephone have been overwhelmed by demand.
NEW BOOKS: David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
My copy is on order!
This book published in the UK mid January 2012 and in the USA on March 1, 2012
Publisher's description: David Hockney, one of the world's greatest living artists, is creating some of the most significant work of his long career, painting the landscape and changing seasons of his native Yorkshire. These large, colorful works are the capstone of his engagement with nature, not only in England but also in the American Southwest, through the media of painting and photography. This book, the catalog of the first major Hockney museum exhibition in many years, offers a glorious view of the landscape as seen by the artist, and it includes not only his recent paintings but also his iPhone and iPad drawings. Essays by leading art historians-as well as a more literary piece by novelist Margaret Drabble and Hockney's own reflections on his recent work-explore Hockney's art from various perspectives.
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
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NEW BOOK: David Hockney - My Yorkshire
Edited by Marco Livingstone
In 2003, Hockney began painting the Yorkshire Wolds in watercolour and subsequently switched to oils on canvas (and indeed canvases) as he created bigger and bigger paintings. His paintings are memorializing both the landscape and Hockney as a Yorkshireman. They've now been seen in several exhibitions
"In two extended and deeply revealing conversations with art historian Marco Livingstone conducted in the middle of this great project, Hockney speaks with great clarity and candour of the complex personal and artistic motivations that have drawn him back to his roots in Yorkshire and led to one of the crowning achievements of his life in art. These interviews nestle among sumptuously reproduced, full-page spreads of Hockney's Yorkshire paintings."
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Below are the UK then USA versions of the book.
David Hockney: My Yorkshire
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UK Publisher: Enitharmon Press (September 1, 2011)
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A Yorkshire Sketchbook
by David Hockney
This is a FACSIMILE of a traditional sketchbook used by David Hockney to sketch the East Yorkshire Wolds. His sketches are executed in pen and ink and watercolour and he uses his calligraphy of marks in his sketches much as he does in his painting. If you've already got the sketchbook DVD you'll know pretty much what a Hockney sketchbook looks like - but this one is of landscapes near his current home in Bridlington. I like the fact the cover of this book has the feel of a good quality sketchbook bound in leather.
RECOMMENDED: This is one for all sketchbook lovers and those who want to understand Hockney's work better. Those looking for words will do better looking elsewhere. Read my Book review: A Yorkshire Sketchbook by David Hockney
This is the link to the UK version
A Yorkshire Sketchbook
David Hockney: A Yorkshire Sketchbook
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Hockney - A Bigger Picture
a record of the links in 2009 to the BBC documentary of "A Bigger Picture"
The first "Hockney - A Bigger Picture" was a film which was first seen on BBC1. It was broadcast on Tuesday 30th June 2009. This is followed by a module which links to where you can now buy this documentary as a DVD in the UK and USA
The documentary of Hockney painting the Wolds of East Yorkshire was made by Bruno Wolheim. He had unprecedented access to the process of painting over the course of three years. His film tells the story of
* a man aged nearly 70 returning to live in Yorkshire after many years of living in California and paying only visits to England
* what inspires and motivates him to start his latest project in a career which has seen many novel projects.
- BBC - BBC One Programmes - Imagine, David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
- The return from California of England's favourite living artist, at the age of 70.Available for viewing for 7 days from 1st July 2009.. However you need to install the BBC iPlayer - and you may not be able to view if you are not located in the UK. Check with the BBC for details
A programme is usually automatically deleted from your BBC iPlayer Download Manager once its licence has expired. - Coluga Pictures - Hockney First Test
- You can see small excerpts from some of the filming on Bruno Wollheim's own Coluga Pictures website. Click the link to see:
* Hockney painting a watercolour and talking about Rembrandt
* Click "Latest" in the menu on te left are two further clips from the film in the drop down menu
* Click "The Making Of" to see Bruno Wollheim talking about the making of the film and further clips - some of which didn't make it to the final edit
* Click "Reviews" to see some of what has been said about this film so far. - Making the bigger picture with David Hockney | Comment | Broadcast
- Bruno Wollheim has spent four years producing a doc about artist David Hockney that will air on BBC1 tonight. Here he writes about the challenges of being a one man indie and the minority status now associated with arts TV.
- David Hockney profile for A Bigger Picture - Telegraph
- Written by Bruno Wolheim
A film-maker had unprecedented access to the elusive artist David Hockney when
shooting his new BBC documentary A Bigger Picture. - Imagine: David Hockney - a Bigger Picture; Gregg Wallace's Recession Bites; CSI: Miami - Times Online
- Imagine: David Hockney - a Bigger Picture (BBC One)
David Hockney quoted Walter Sickert to his puzzled interviewer: "Never believe what an artist says, only what he does." Fortunately, Bruno Wollheim must have known this instinctively. Instead of going for a long sit-down with Britain's greatest artist, he filmed him off and on for three years. What emerged, in last night's Imagine, was an account of the artist's lifelong but disputatious affair with the camera - TV review: Imagine (BBC One)
- Matt Warman reviews Imagine's profile of artist David Hockney and his giant painting Bigger Trees Near Warter
The musician Frank Zappa is usually credited with first making the observation that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture". Throughout Imagine: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture (BBC One) it was tempting to believe that Hockney himself thought the same of making TV about art. Perhaps that was why Bruno Wollheim's film, the product of four years spent with Hockney and extensive interviews with the famously press-shy artist, did little to explain Hockney's paintings, but was more illuminating on Hockney the man. - Making a Mark: Review: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
- I thought this was a fascinating film which all Hockneyphiles will want to rush out and buy on DVD - it will certainly repay repeat viewing.
- The bigger picture - Telegraph
- David Hockney talks to Martin Gayford about his gigantic new landscape painting.
- David Hockney donates Bigger Trees Near Warter to Tate - Times Online
- David Hockney donated his largest ever painting to the Tate today and called
on the Government to make it easier for artists to make gifts of their work.
DVD: "David Hockney - A Bigger Picture"
A documentary film by Bruno Wollheim
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture is a new DVD of the documentary film by Bruno Wollheim orginally shown on the BBC. [Click link for details on Amazon UK; DVD due to publish in the USA in June 2010 - see side column for details]
Read my review of the film when originally shown on the BBC - Review: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
"I'm very happy with documentaries which place an emphasis on observation, listening and asking salient questions from time to time - they give you time to think and to respond to what you see and hear. It seemed to me that this documentary was very much about letting Hockney talk for himself about the things he wanted to talk about."
This documentary was filmed by Bruno Wollheim over three years. It's a unique record of a major artist at work. David Hockney returned to live in England - in East Yorkshire - after many years living in California. After a career which has seen him explore many different ways of creating art, this film capture him getting back to painting plein air working through the seasons and in all weathers out in the countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds of East Yorkshire.
His initial work results in the largest picture ever made outdoors.
Premiered on BBC1, the documentary has been recreated for this DVD as a special extended 60 minute version our new films, providing 55 minutes of additional behind-the-scenes material.:
* David Hockney at work on "Late November Tunnel 2006"
* Leading art figures assess "Bigger Trees Near Warter"
* David Hocknet reflects on art and life
* The making of the documentary
Reviews of the documentary:
BBC Radio 4: "We will keep coming back to this wonderful film, not just to enjoy now but it will be of lasting importance for future generations who want to understand Hockneys art"
The Sunday Times: "Bruno Wollheims portrait of this forthright magus is an unqualified, life-enhancing joy from start to finish."
The Times: "This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockneys process."
Time Out: "As gently hypnotic and fulfilling as one of Hockneys own works."
Marco Livingstone, writer on David Hockney: "It's one of the best films I've seen about the artistic process for a very long time. It made a powerful impression on me. It is a film that will bear repeated viewings"
The Scotsman: "Revealing in a gentle, ruminative way, this was a fine profile of a charming and inspiring contrarian"
The Financial Times: "An affectionate portrait of David Hockney who has come back to the land of his birth to find new springs for his art"
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED In my view, this is a DVD you will never tire of - because it shows the painter in the act of painting - getting ready to paint, on location painting and looking at the results afterwards. Hockney talks articulately about painting, painting landscapes and the East Yorkshire Wolds. It's a unique insight into the man and his artistic practice by a Yorkshire man who "tells it like it is"!
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This is the UK version
Below is the DVD published in the USA in June 2010
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
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David Hockney's landscape paintings of East Yorkshire
" Hockney set up his easel en plein air for his first new oil painting of the countryside surrounding Bridlington in 2005. He began working on relatively small canvases, producing three to four a day, painting into the fall and the early winter; "It's only having seen a tree's inner structure, with its branches laid bare in winter," Hockney explains, that one "learns to experience, and then to render, that tree's subsequent summer fullness-and then vice versa." Indeed, "[i]f famously seasonless Los Angeles had taught Hockney space and spaciousness," Weschler writes, "the East Yorkshire countryside was now teaching him time, and with his dazzlingly colorful renderings, he in turn was making its passage central to the depiction of paysage. More to the point, though, it was as if, after over twenty years of myriad wanderings, he'd found a figurative (non-abstract) way clean past the monocular optical vise." Hockney devised a method for painting large-scale canvases outdoors and the need to overcome wind, rain and snow, and logistics of viewing the scene as well as transportation of the canvases. He divided the full expanse of a painting among several canvases, and each morning transported a few of the canvases to the field, mounting one or more at a time onto easels. Returning to his studio at the end of the day, Hockney combined the parts to form the whole image, resulting in large-scale multi-canvas paintings such as Bigger Trees Nearer Warter, captured in the winter and summer of 2008, on view in the 25th Street gallery, and The Big Hawthorne (2008) at 57th Street, each composed of nine canvases and measuring 108 x 144".
Each year since his return to Yorkshire, Hockney anticipates the brief blooming of the Hawthorne blossoms-which lasts only three or four days-through late May and all of June; "[T]here are just a few weeks each spring and fall where everything starts happening very fast, and you have to work very fast if you're going to see," Hockney paraphrases Cezanne, "because everything is fast disappearing." Once it begins, he is prepared. The artist uses his prime hours outdoors to capture the scene before him in charcoal, and then takes the drawings back to his studio to create the basis for new paintings, like those on view in this exhibition. "So much of seeing is memory, which is yet another aspect of the human reality of vision that ordinary photographs can't even begin to capture," the artist explains. The twenty-eight paintings featured also include Hockney's felled trees and "totems," narrating the once in a generation thinning of the forest and the lumber that it produces. "Suffolk had its Constable, and West Yorkshire its Turner," Weschler writes, "But before Hockney, nobody had ever really bothered to look at East Yorkshire like this, with this passion and this savor. Or at any rate to portray it thus imbued."
Source: Pace Wildenstein - David Hockney - Recent Paintings - opens 32 East 57th Street on October 23 and at 534 West 25th Street on October 29, and will be on view until December 24, 2009
David Hockney - Just Nature
Kunsthalle Wurth, Schwabisch Hall, Germany 27 April - 27 September 2009
- Hockney Pictures - Just Nature
- DAVID HOCKNEY: JUST NATURE
KUNSTHALLE WURTH, SCHWABISCH HALL GERMANY
27 APRIL - 27 SEPTEMBER, 2008 - The Independent - David Hockney: Just Nature, Museum Wurth, Swabisch Hall, Germany
- Now here's a curious fact. If you want to really understand what David Hockney has been pouring his energies into these past several years, you need to visit a museum in a small, medieval town in Swabia. Why could this not have happened in England? The question hangs in the air, waiting for a collective response from the curators of England's great cultural institutions.
DAVID HOCKNEY - PORTRAITS
Hockney on sharing art
'What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.'
David Hockney
Portraits by David Hockney
Hockney has been painting portraits from his teenage years. The earliest portrait is called Portrait of My Father (1955).
Over the years he has drawn or painted his friends, family and lovers and produced numerous self-portraits. These portraits record his life.
He very rarely takes a commission. Occasionally he will paint a series of strangers when he's developing a testing an approach or developing a theory.
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David Hockney
David Hockney Portraits
This is the catalogue of the major retrospective "David Hockney Portraits" exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Los Angeles Museum of County Art and the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
It features more than 250 works from the past fifty years and illustrates both the range of work he does in different media and the way in which his approach to portraiture progresses through projects and cycles
Subjects featured in the book include people who are members of Hockney's family and his private circle. Also included are portraits of significant and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, Helmet Newton, and W. H. Auden. It includes images of Hockney's portraits in different types of media - painting, drawing, photography, and prints
David Hockney Portraits
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Publisher: Yale University Press (March 28, 2006)
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Portrait Exhibitions and New Works
- National Portrait Gallery - David Hockney Portraits
- 12 October 2006 - 21 January 2007
Wolfson and Ground Floor Galleries
Exhibition organised with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. - DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
11 June, 2006 - 4 September,2006
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
26 February - 14 May, 2006 - National Portrait Gallery - Teachers Notes - David Hockney Portraits Life Love Art
- Teachers' Notes
Information and Activities for Secondary Art Teachers
These notes focus on particular aspects of Hockney's portraiture
and on a small number of interconnecting themes developed
over Hockney's career. They are intended to help students look
at Hockney's work and enable group discussion - National Portrait Gallery - Five Double Portraits: New work by David Hockney
- National Portrait Gallery - 16 January - 29 June 2003
HOCKNEY IN MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
Works by Hockney in the permanent collections of art galleries and museums
The British artist David Hockney has produced some of the most vividly recognizable images of this century.
Hockney's work can be found in numerous important public collections worldwide, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; The Art Institute of Chicago; National Portrait Gallery, London; Tate Gallery, London; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C..
- Salt Mills Gallery, Saltaire - David Hockney Gallery
- A gallery of works by David Hockney at the Salt Mills Gallery at Saltaire, north of Bradford. Includes early works, oil paintings, home made prints and lithographs
- National Portrait Gallery, London
- Sitter associated with 35 portraits | Artist associated with 11 portraits
Bradford-born artist: painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer and photographer, now based in California. A leading figure in the Pop Art movement, his portraits and swimming pool scenes have earned him an international popularity unparalleled this century.
National Portrait Gallery: list of portraits for David Hockney including Richard Hamilton by David Hockney, David Hockney ('The Student - Homage to Picasso') by David Hockney, Don Bachardy; Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood by David Hockney, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies; - Tate Collection | David Hockney
- List of works in the collection of the Tate
- David Hockney: Henry, Seventh Avenue (1979.546) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- While his paintings are often large in size and brightly colored, his drawings, which are executed as independent works of art, are on a much more intimate scale and show his subtle mastery of draftsmanship and portraiture. This work is one of several he did of his friend and mentor Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994), a great proponent of contemporary art and curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum from 1967 to 1977. Executed on paper with colored crayon, the drawing has the look of a spontaneous caricature, but aptly captures the sitter's likeness and character.
- The Art Institute of Chicago | works by David Hockney
- Displaying 50 records of work by David Hockney
- About This David Hockney Artwork | The Art Institute of Chicago - American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)
- American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968
Acrylic on canvas 213.4 x 304.8 cm (83 7/8 x 120 in.)
Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic G. Pick, 1984.182
© David Hockney
Perhaps the most iconic example from a group of double portraits of friends and associates from the 1960s, this painting depicts the contemporary-art collectors Fred and Marcia Weisman in the sculpture garden of their Los Angeles home. As relentlessly stiff and still as the objects surrounding them, - J. Paul Getty Museum - David Hockney
- A biography of the artist David Hockney from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection.
- J. Paul Getty Museum: Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #1
- A work by Hockney from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection.
Chromogenic prints mounted on paper honeycomb panel - Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Object of the Month - August 2007: David Hockney RA, (b. 1937), Double Study for 'A Closer Grand Canyon'
- David Hockney RA, (b. 1937), Double Study for 'A Closer Grand Canyon', oil on canvas, 1998
BOOKS: Books By David Hockney - on Amazon
He's produced quite a few books.........these are just a few
Exhibitions of work by David Hockney
Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney received the gold medal for his year at London's Royal College of Art in 1962.
The artist had his first one-man show in 1963 at the age of 26, and by 1970 the first of several major retrospectives was organized (David Hockney: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, 1960-1970 at Whitechapel Gallery, London, which traveled to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade).
Other significant retrospectives include:
David Hockney: Prints and Drawings, Travels with Pen, Pencil, and Ink, organized by International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., which traveled to 13 museums including Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City and Yale Center For British Art, New Haven (1978-80);
Hockney Paints the Stage, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, which traveled to: Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Fort Worth Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; and Hayward Gallery, London (1983-85);
David Hockney: A Retrospective, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Tate Gallery, London (1988-89);
David Hockney: A Drawing Retrospective, 1954-1994, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, which traveled to Royal Academy of Arts, London and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1995-96);
David Hockney: Exciting Times are Ahead, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, which traveled as David Hockney: Malerei 1960-2000 to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark (2001-2002),
David Hockney: Portraits, co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery, London, which traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2006-07)
- DAVID HOCKNEY : Group exhibitions
- Group exhibitions including David Hockney (authorised website)
- DAVID HOCKNEY : One Man Shows
- One man shows by David Hockney (authorised website)
- National Portrait Gallery - Past Exhibitions Archive - David Hockney Portraits
- David Hockney Portraits PAST EXHIBITION ARCHIVE
12 October 2006 - 21 January 2007
Wolfson and Ground Floor Galleries
Exhibition organised by the NPG with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. - DAVID HOCKNEY : EXHIBITION CATALOGS
- Exhibition catalogues for David Hockney exhibitions (authorised catalogue)
- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007
- This is the exhibition which showed Bigger Trees near Warter (oil, 50 canvases 180" x 480" overall)
- DAVID HOCKNEY : ARTS CLUB CHICAGO 2008
- DAVID HOCKNEY: LOOKING AT WOLDGATE WOODS
THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Il.
APRIL 25 - JULY 18, 2008 - DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts Feb 26 - May 14 2006
- DAVID HOCKNEY: LA LOUVER
- Hand Eye Heart
Watercolors of the East Yorkshire Landscape
26 February - 2 April, 2005
watercolor on paper
> SLIDE SHOW (requires flash plugin) - Exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Würth - Schwäbisch Hall
- Exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Würth - Schwäbisch Hall
David Hockney. Just Nature
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Apr. 27, 2009 - Sep. 27, 2009 - Annely Juda Fine Art - David Hockney Drawing in a Printing Machine 1 May - 11 July 2009
- David Hockney - Drawing in a Printing Machine - 1 May - 11 July 2009
The show comprises 28 limited edition prints that Hockney has drawn on his computer using Photoshop and Graphics Tablet. Hockney stated that it is only in the last year that computer software has advanced enough to keep up with the artist's hand and allow sufficient sensitivity of colour and painterly line. - The Art Newspaper - Hockney to launch Nottingham Contemporary
- The Tate is set to loan a substantial number of works by David Hockney-17 in total-to Nottingham Contemporary, the new £19.4m arts centre set to open in November. The new gallery's first exhibition will re-examine the British painter's work from 1960 to 1968 (14 November-24 January 2010) with paintings such as A Bigger Splash (1967), Study for Dollboy (1960) and The Berliner and the Bavarian (1962) on loan from the London gallery. Key works on paper to go on show include Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (1961)
- Pacewildenstein - David Hockney: Recent Paintings October 29, 2009 - December 24, 2009
- David Hockney: Recent Paintings - October 29, 2009 - December 24, 2009
A two-venue exhibition of the artist's vibrant new works - a return to oil painting and to the vivid Yorkshire landscapes of his youth;
presented on the occasion of his first exhibition of new paintings in New York in over 12 years - David Hockney v Damien Hirst - Telegraph
- 2012 pits Damien Hirst, enfant terrible of the YBA generation, against the great champion of observational drawing, David Hockney. The two men have a great deal more in common than may be first apparent, says Mark Hudson.
This film follows David Hockney as he paints a series of double portraits, each one done in a single 7-hour sitting. Director Bruno Wollheim spent a number of months with Hockney, filming the process, interviewing the participants and being painted together with his twin brother. Five of the double portraits were shown at a fabulous exhibition of Hockney's Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
BOOKS: David Hockney Exhibition Catalogues
Group Exhibitions Involving Hockney
- National Portrait Gallery | What's on? | Bern Schwartz: Portraits of the 1970s
- Bern Schwartz: Portraits of the 1970s 10 July 2008 - 4 January 2009
Room 33
In association with the Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation
Photographs include one of Hockney in his studio
David Hockney - in online galleries and art history websites
- WebMuseum: Hockney, David
- Hockney, DavidTIMELINE:
Pop ArtHockney, David
(1937- ).
British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer.
After a brilliant prize-winning career as a student at the
Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by
the time he was in his mid-20s, and has since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British artist of his generation. His phenomenal success has been based not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested in art. - ArtandCulture Artist: David Hockney
- The still, calm atmosphere of a Los Angeles backyard, replete with swimming pool and handsome bathers -- this is where David Hockney dwells. He's inhabited other domains too, of course, but not for as long as he's sat poolside and studied the movements of the water, the lambent play of light on its surface, and the sadness of its depths. A longtime resident of L.A., Hockney knows this scene very, very well. His paintings express the time he's spent in it, the serenity of so many tranquil afternoons in the warm, thick L.A. air.
- David Hockney sketches | | guardian.co.uk Arts
- Imahes from David Hockney's sketchbooks
From top: The Evening Standard reflected in a silver bowl Hockney had just bought; On the No 9 bus; Gainsborough at Tate Britain; Plaster casts in the V&A museum.
Making A Mark - posting about Hockney exhibitions, DVDs and as curator
- Making A Mark - posts about David Hockney
- All blog posts with a David Hockney label
- Making a Mark: David Hockney "15 sketchbooks" DVD - a further update
- Just a quick update for any Hockney fans out there about the David Hockney Sketchbook DVD "Fifteen Sketchbooks 2002-2003" and how to purchase it.
- Making a Mark: Turner Watercolours with Hockney and Shirley
- BP Summer Exhibition: Hockney on Turner Watercolours (11 June 2007 - 3 February 2008:
There are two excellent new Turner exhibitions at Tate Britain - and part of one of them was curated by David Hockney. - Making a Mark: David Hockney: Fifteen Sketchbooks 2002-2003 - Update on DVD availability
- This is for all those people who keep contacting me to ask me how they can get hold of the DVD "David Hockney - Fifteen Sketchbooks 2002-2003".
- Making a Mark: David Hockney and Shirley - sharing art and sketchbooks
- "What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing; you wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought" David Hockney / David Hockney Portraits
- Making a Mark: Two London exhibitions for David Hockney
- The NPG asserts that "David Hockney Portraits - Life Love Art" is the first exhibition of Hockney portraits in 50 years. It includes portraits of family, friends, lovers and himself and has arrived in London from the exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Los Angeles County Museum of Art earlier this year.
- The Art of the Landscape: David Hockney's Yorkshire
- This post is about three major new initiatives relating to David Hockney and his paintings of the landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds
- The Art of the Landscape: David Hockney talks about landscape painting routine
- I'm going to do a small series of posts about David Hockney posting landscapes. First a very short video of Hockney talking about his painting routine.
- The Art of the Landscape: David Hockney RA talks about landscape painting
- This particular post provides an index of opportunities to hear David Hockney talking about his landscape painting and why he's been painting the Easy Yorkshire Wolds in particular for the last few years.
DAVID HOCKNEY'S PROJECTS
David Hockney - Photocollage
- BBC - h2g2 - David Hockney - Photocollage
- Between the years of 1982 and 1987, David Hockney experimented heavily with photocollage, creating works he calls joiners. You can see two examples of Hockney's joiners at the sunsite mirror of the WebMuseum: Place Furstenberg, Paris and Pearblossom Highway. Unfortunately, pictures of Hockney's other photocollages on the web are hard to find. To really appreciate these photocollages, you need to see the real thing, as they are very large and part of their impact comes about from the sense of space and immersion.
Hockney's subjects
Some links to the people and places in the drawings, paintings and prints
- A life in print: Susannah Frankel meet Celia Birtwell - Features, Fashion - Independent.co.uk
- In the early Seventies, with Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell's celebrity at its height, Hockney painted the portrait Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. Birtwell was pregnant with her second son, George, at the time. (The couple's eldest son, Albert, was born in 1969.) The picture remains among the most visited works in Tate Britain, and is the best-selling postcard in the gallery's shop to this day. It is a measure of Birtwell's playfulness that it was only after it had been named that she chose to reveal to her great friend that the cat in question is not, in fact, Percy.
David Hockney and iPhone / iPad Sketching
David Hockney is a huge fan of the iPhone and IPad for sketching
After buying his first iPhone Hockney changed the way he drew and started to send small drawings of flowers every morning to his friends - for free. He now carries his iPad around in the large internal jacket pockets has previously used for carrying his sketchbooks
- David Hockney's IPad Doodles Resemble High-Tech Stained Glass - Bloomberg.com
- he's using this portable hi-tech gizmo in much the way he used to employ a pad of paper. It's his latest drawing medium. A couple of weeks ago, I got a text from him reading: "I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well."
"I do love it, I must admit," Hockney, 72, confirms. "I thought the iPhone was great when I bought one the year before last, but this takes it to a new level. It's a new medium, eight times the size of the iPhone." - David Hockney turns the iPad into an art form | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
- Artist using Brushes application on new Apple device to draw pictures and email results to friends
- Me and my iPad - by David Hockney | Technology | The Guardian
- The iPad finally goes on sale in the UK on Friday. But how good is it? Early adopters give us their views
What do you use it for most?
Drawing, mostly. It's a new medium, with an immense range of mark-making techniques. Being able to send them immediately to friends is what's really new. The drawings are also out of Sotheby's grasp. Something new there too. - BBC News - David Hockney's instant iPad art
- The international artist David Hockney has turned to the iPad to display his latest work at an exhibition in Paris called Fleurs Fraiches.
- David Hockney's iPad Art | Dan Costa | PCMag.com
- David Hockney is proving you are never too old to be part of the iPad generation.
Newspaper and Magazine articles about David Hockney
- Jonathan Jones on David Hockney 's major new exhibition | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
- 'Cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Freud'
He was the bleached-blond rebel who electrified the art world, tearing at boundaries. Today, nearing 70, David Hockney might prefer sketching in Yorkshire - but he is still railing against authority and taking risks. To mark the opening of a major new exhibition, Jonathan Jones conducts a special interview
Friday September 8, 2006 - David Hockney: Why I Paint Instead of Just Picking Up a Camera by Martin Gayford
- Bloomberg article
- The Turner surprise - Times Online
- David Hockney stands beside the minimal pond and slab of decorative wild
flowers outside the Tate's Clore wing assuming the characteristic pose of
the anonymous smoker outside large buildings all over the West. - Hockney makes light work of it as his big picture is unveiled - Times Online
- LONDON David Hockney unveiled his painting Bigger Trees Near Warter
today. (26 May 2007) - Leader: In praise of ... David Hockney | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Leader: With his round face and owlish eyes, David Hockney is now almost as recognisable as his paintings.
- Curator Hockney pays homage to Turner - Times Online
- David Hockney, Britain's most celebrated contemporary painter, has downed his
paint-brush temporarily to curate the Tate's largest survey of watercolour
masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner. - It's just like old Times as Hockney makes headline news 50 years on - Times Online
- A PAGE from The Times became the backdrop for one of David Hockney's early self-portraits because the artist wanted to make a joke with one of the headlines, he said yesterday.
- Gallery gets its first painted self-portrait from Hockney - This Britain, UK - Independent.co.uk
- A self-portrait of David Hockney standing before a work-in-progress while his friend and former assistant, Charlie Scheips, scrutinises the canvas has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.
The £148,000 purchase is the gallery's first painted self-portrait of Hockney. - Hockney, David: A Bigger Splash (1967) - Great Works, Art & Architecture - Independent.co.uk
- It's an extremely composed composition. The picture is a perfect square, divided into two almost equal oblongs, the sky above and the pool below, with a band of pink sandwiched between them. The shapes are all straight lines, mostly verticals, horizontals, parallels, rectangles. The paint is applied in solid, even areas, yielding an immaculate and utterly uneventful surface. The motionless water is as depthless as the sky and the wall. Everything is clear, flat and simple, reduced to a geometrical plan.
- Hockney completes his most ambitious project yet - This Britain, UK - Independent.co.uk
- About a month ago, David Hockney hauled the 50 canvases that make up his largest-ever artwork into a van and drove to a large barn near his studio in Bridlington.
There, against the wall, he assembled his latest and most ambitious composition, a 40ft-wide and 15ft-high tribute to the beauty of the East Yorkshire landscape. Painted in the open air, it was too large to assemble indoors in his modest studio.
Venues do not come much more spacious than the Royal Academy of Arts however. And yesterday Hockney was standing in front of his composition again, this time in London.
Bigger Trees near Water or/ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique, is the largest single work that the RA has ever hung. - David Hockney - Los Angeles Times
- David Hockney - profile of an quintessential Angeleno
- Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - art: Hockney's big place in history
- Jonathan Jones - Having already established himself as one of the 20th-century greats, the artist's latest works ensure his reputation will continue to grow
- Observer - Sunny side up
- Art: Hockney's portraits of others have gone from the iconic to the superficial, but his self-portraits have remained stunning works of observation, writes Laura Cumming.
- David Hockney News - The New York Times
- News about David Hockney. Commentary and archival information about David Hockney from The New York Times.
- The Guardian - David Hockney, the fallen beech trees and the lost canvas
- %u2022 Artist's plan to paint all four seasons curtailed
%u2022 Century-old copse felled to sell valuable timber - The Guardian - David Hockney Portrait resurfaces
- Pencil portrait of artist's lover to go on auction next week in Dorchester after 30 years in private collection
- FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: David Hockney
- The artist talks to Jackie Wullschlager about his love of space and the American west
- The Independent - David Hockney: Just Nature, Museum Wurth, Swabisch Hall, Germany
- The name Hockney no longer means the heat-struck languors of Southern California. Hockney's now back living in Yorkshire, and he's painting the East Yorkshire landscape en plein air just like those Impressionists used to do.
- The Independent - David Hockney: Drawing in a Printing Machine, Annely Juda, London
- The works in his new show, Drawing in a Printing Machine, are described as "inkjet-printed computer drawings". Using a graphic tablet and a tablet pen, Hockney has produced a series of images, some drawn, some a mix of drawing and photography, and one - a wall-length panorama called The Twenty -Five Big Trees between Bridlington School and Morrison's Supermarket on Bessingby Road, In the Semi-Egyptian Style - a photomontage. The foreground grass of this last work has some of Hockney's characteristic squiggles on it, but how small can an artist's input be before a work ceases to be by him? To what extent is a Hockney drawn on screen and run off a printer, a Hockney?
- New Statesman - Interview: David Hockney
- After decades in California, the painter has returned to his native Yorkshire. He invites the New Statesman exclusively into his studio
- There's a courage to David Hockney's Yorkshire landscapes | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
- Jonathan Jones: The tradition of open-air painting celebrated in the National Gallery's Corot to Monet show is still alive in the hands of David Hockney
- FT.com / Arts / Visual Arts - David Hockney, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
- At the Annely Juda gallery in London, he shows images drawn using a computer-generated palette, and switching between finishes that look like watercolour, oils, lino-cut or, when he likes, photographs. The show is divided into two parts: portraits, which are at a further remove from photographs; and landscapes, which are closer.
- artnet.com Magazine Features - Art Market Guide 2000
- Art Market Guide 2000 by Richard Polsky
David Hockney is America's finest living realist painter. Some would argue that Wayne Thiebaud or perhaps Richard Estes deserves that title, but as far as variety of subject matter, diversity of mediums and the sheer wit and intelligence of his imagery, Hockney has them all beat. - The worlds of David Hockney -- latimes.com
- David Hockney , renowned chronicler of Los Angeles ' sun-drenched life and landscapes, hasn't been around much lately. He's much more likely to be painting these days in his native Yorkshire than in his adopted Southern California. ¶ But unlock the studio door of his secluded Hollywood Hill
- Merlin Carpenter - David Hockney, 1971
- DAVID HOCKNEY, 1971 Â There is an intriguing denial in the autobiographical work "David Hockney by David Hockney: My Early Years": "The whole idea of conceptualism in art hasn't interested me much at all; there's been very little influence from it on my work."
- The big picture: Cecil Beaton meets David Hockney | Art and design | The Observer
- David Hockney and Cecil Beaton, noted dandies from different eras, are perfectly framed by exotic foliage. But guess who's making love to the camera man, writes Peter Conrad
- The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth | Music | The Guardian
- The artist first worked with director John Cox on their version of The Rake's Progress 35 years ago. As it returns to Glyndebourne, the pair talk philistines, deafness and iPads to Nicholas Wroe
BOOKS: Secret Knowledge - on Amazon
Secret Knowledge - The Debate
There has been a big debate about the content of Hockney's book 'Secret Knowledge'. Links added her will cover both sides of the debate - although it has to be said that those who refute his argument write the most.
- Hockney-Falco thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Hockney-Falco thesis is a controversial theory of art history, advanced by artist David Hockney and physicist Charles M. Falco, suggesting that advances in realism and accuracy in the history of Western art since the Renaissance were primarily the result of optical aids such as the camera obscura, camera lucida, and curved mirrors, rather than the development of artistic technique and skill. In a 2001 book, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Hockney analyzed the work of the Old Masters and argued that the level of accuracy represented in their work is impossible to create by "eyeballing it". Since then, Hockney and Falco have produced a number of publications on positive evidence of the use optical aids, and the historical plausibility of such methods.
- Frequently Asked Questions - Charles M Falco
- Within the first five months after publication of David Hockney's Secret Knowledge (Thames & Hudson; Viking Studio, 2001; Expanded Edition 2006) over 100 newspaper and magazine articles already had appeared that discussed the discoveries in that book, and millions more saw television programs including a BBC special and CBS's 60 Minutes. As a result of me being mentioned as Hockney's scientific collaborator, I have been overwhelmed with emails and letters on the subject. Unfortunately, there have been far too many letters for me to to reply to each one individually. However, many of the same questions have been asked by more than one person, either in writing or at the more than 90 seminars and public lectures on this topic I have given thus far over since 2000, resulting in me compiling the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
- ARC ARTicles - Hockney's Secret Knowledge: Refuted - ARC Staff - Page 1/2
- Arguments for and against what Hockney said - but did he?
- ARC ARTicles - Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously - Brian K. Yoder - Page 1/4
- In general, I have two reasons for rejecting Hockney's conclusions. The first is that even on his own terms his arguments don't demonstrate that his conclusions are true. The second is that there is ample counter-evidence against Hockney's claims.
- ARC ARTicles - Ann James Massey reviews Hockney's 'Secret Knowledge' - Ann James Massey - Page 1/1
- Hockney is doing an enormous disservice to many of the artists of the past, to living artists who draw without computers, projecting or tracing, and to future artists who will believe learning to draw is unnecessary since mechanical means will be good enough.
- David Stork - Hockney FAQs - Tracing
- Information about David Hockney's claim that early Renaissance painters traced optical projected images
After more than a half decade of consideration, though, the independent scholarly community has overwhelmingly--in fact, unanimously--rejected the Hockney tracing theory, at least as its claims before the second half of the 16th century. - David Stork - Computer image analysis of art FAQs
- Information about computer image analysis in the study of fine art
Now that the unanimous independent scholarly consensus has rejected the Hockney tracing theory for the period of interest (1425-1550), or at best found it unproven, after nearly seven years it is time to move on to more productive topics in computer image analysis of art. For this reason, over the next few months this site will shift its focus from addressing the Hockney claims (retaining a few resources for those interested) to expand to much broader issues in the application of computer methods to the study of art.
VIDEO: David Hockney talking about Turner
BOOKS: About Hockney
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daphnedangerlove
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- David Hockney is a wonder and this is a treasure trove of information. I was first introduced to his work when I was in high-school, and I have been an admirer ever since. Great job putting this together.
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- great lens, love the images... RWJR
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- Renee - I suggest you contact the people who run the David Hockney website and see if they have any ideas
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Renee
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- This site has a wealth of info - and I wonder if you or any reader can help me: I am trying to find posters of the collage series, but not peachblossom highway or mother of the artist. Does anyone have any idea where these prints are hiding??
Thanks! Renee
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Bruno Wollheim
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- Sorry, for completeness sake, I should have also mentioned another BBC documentary I made on David Hockney, called "David Hockney: Double Portrait". It is available on Amazon for £16.95.
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Bruno Wollheim
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- Just thought you might like to know, given how impressively you've collected material on David Hockney and your kind mention of my website and documentary, that my Imagine doc "David Hockney: A Bigger Picture" is now available on DVD in a longer 60' version with four other films to fill in the record. Available on Amazon and assorted museum bookstores for £19.95. I'd be happy to send you a copy if you email me your address to bruno@colugapictures.co.uk
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- I am a dedicted Hockney fan and appreciate this resource a lot as Hockney is not that easy to find on the net. Last weekend I had the chance to see his exhibition at the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall,called "Just Nature" featuring his monumental multi-panel paintings of Yorkshire landscapes and some very fine charcoal drawings.
Swiridoff publishers made the bi-lingual catalogue.
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Bob Ragland
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- David Hockney has a deep and varied art life and career. It seems that he took the USA by storm, I would assume he's rich enough to really do what ever he wants to art life wise.
Hockney's career reminds me of what I've read about Picasso.
The artist is very prolific and has a great work ethic.
Thanks for your postings on David Hockney.
Sincerely,
Bob Ragland
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DVD: a David Hockney documentary
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Amazon Price: $13.17 (as of 06/01/2012)
I watched the BBC documentary and then this DVD - and then I watched it again!
Filmed over three years, this documentary follows David Hockney as he returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood. As Hockney approaches the age of 70, he revitalizes his painting, capturing the beautiful Yorkshire countryside in all weathers and seasons, and finally creates the largest picture ever made outdoors. Premiered on BBC1, the film tells the story of an unusual homecoming and also an intimate portrait of what inspires Hockney as his time runs out.
In conversation with Hockney
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
Amazon Price: $18.59 (as of 06/01/2012)
This is probably one of the best books I've ever read about Hockney.
It's a record of conversations between artist David Hockney and Lawrence Weschler over a period of some years. It chronicles the processes of the production of various series and artworks
These conversations provide an astonishing record of what has been Hockney's grand endeavor, nothing less than an exploration of "the structure of seeing" itself.
More conversations with David Hockney
Hockney on Art: Conversations with Paul Joyce
Amazon Price: $9.50 (as of 06/01/2012)
David Hockney-one of the most celebrated pop artists of all time-offers a fascinating and articulate investigation of the art world in this impressive critical review.
