Documents and Dreams (Photography and Art 1) (Cv/Visual Arts Research Book 154)

David Hockney

Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted.

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While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realised it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room. He began to work more with photography after this discovery and stopped painting for a while to exclusively pursue this new technique. Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one eyed' approach, however, [42] he returned to painting.

In December Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox , a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled a number of artists. Since , Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone [43] and iPad [44] application, often sending them to his friends. Unveiled in September , the Queen's Window is located in the north transept of the Abbey and features a hawthorn blossom scene which is set in Yorkshire.

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From to , Hockney created multi-camera movies using three to eighteen cameras to record a single scene. He filmed the landscape of Yorkshire in various seasons, jugglers and dancers, and his own exhibitions within the de Young Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hockney's earlier photocollages influenced his shift to another medium, digital photography. He combined hundreds of photographs to create multi-viewpoint "photographic drawings" of groups of his friends in Hockney returned more frequently to Yorkshire in the s, usually every three months, to visit his mother [50] who died in He rarely stayed for more than two weeks until , [50] when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill encouraged him to capture the local surroundings.

He did this at first with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood. Hockney returned to Yorkshire for longer and longer stays, and by was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolor. To help him visualize work at that scale, he used digital photographic reproductions to study the day's work.

It was painted on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over five weeks last winter. It's going to be here for a while. I don't want to give things I'm not too proud of I thought this was a good painting because it's of England A Bigger Picture which followed Hockney as he worked outdoors over the preceding two years.

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Technical advances allowed him to become increasingly complex in model-making. At his studio he had a proscenium opening 6 feet 1. He also used a computerised setup that let him punch in and program lighting cues at will and synchronise them to a soundtrack of the music. In , Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration of his production for Turandot. The majority of Hockney's theater works and stage design studies are found in the collection of The David Hockney Foundation.

David Hockney has been featured in over solo exhibitions and over group exhibitions. In , he was included in the cross-generational Whitney Biennial , where his portraits appeared in a gallery with those of a younger artist he had inspired, Elizabeth Peyton. In October , the National Portrait Gallery in London organised one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and photocollages from over five decades. The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work he completed in Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January , was one of the gallery's most successful.

In , "David Hockney: From 21 January to 9 April , the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture , [66] which included more than works, many of which take entire walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms. The exhibition is dedicated to landscapes, especially trees and tree tunnels of his native Yorkshire. Hockney said, in a interview, "It's about big things.

You can make paintings bigger. We're also making photographs bigger, videos bigger, all to do with drawing. From 26 October to 30 January David Hockney: From 9 February to 29 May David Hockney was presented at the Tate Britain , becoming the gallery's most visited exhibition ever. After the blockbuster exhibitions in of the works of decades past, Hockney moved right along to show his newest paintings on hexagonal canvases and mural-size 3D photographic drawings at Pace Gallery in Hockney is openly gay, [80] and has openly explored the nature of gay love in his portraiture.

In , he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles , one showering while the other washes his back.

Documents and Dreams: Photography and Art 1

On the morning of 18 March , Hockney's year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington studio; he had also earlier drunk alcohol and taken cocaine, ecstasy and temazepam. Elliott was a first- and second-team player for Bridlington Rugby Club. It was reported that Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he later died. The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure and Hockney was never implicated. He holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card , which enables him to buy cannabis for medical purposes.

He has used hearing aids since , but realised he was going deaf long before that. He keeps fit by spending half an hour in the swimming pool each morning, [87] and can stand for six hours at the easel. Another large group of works are held by The David Hockney Foundation. His work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:.

Hockney was offered a knighthood in but declined, before accepting an Order of Merit in January Commissioned by The Other Art Fair, a November poll of 1, British painters and sculptors declared him Britain's most influential artist of all time. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover — to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires. In , Hockney was first represented by art dealer John Kasmin. Edited book, 70, words. International Handbook of Museum Studies series.

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