David Hockney - Resources for Art Lovers

David Hockney - the one and only authorised website 

It took me years to find this....................

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 - Life and Works 

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.

BBC - Radio 3 - David Hockney Interview

Transcript of John Tusa interviewing David Hockney

Listen to the interview between John Tusa and David Hockney

Listen to the interview with David Hockney

Hockney - A Bigger Picture 

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.

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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.

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.

Works by Hockney in the permanent collections of art galleries and museums 

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

Exhibitions of work by David Hockney 

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 : Group exhibitions

Group exhibitions including David Hockney (authorised website)

DAVID HOCKNEY : One Man Shows

One man shows by David Hockney (authorised website)

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
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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.

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 - 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 

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.

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

? Artist's plan to paint all four seasons curtailed
? 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

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.

Secret Knowledge - The Debate 

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.

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.