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The exhibition was one of the most popular in Spain in the summer of 2012. It listed first in El Mundo ’s list of 12 exhibitions to see that season. [ 2 ] On 29 December 2012 when El País released their annual top ten exhibitions of the year, [ 3 ] an important index in the Spanish art world, they listed it second only to Edward Hopper ’s ...
A Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 242.5 centimetres (95.5 in) by 243.9 centimetres (96.0 in), it depicts a swimming pool beside a modern house, disturbed by a large splash of water created by an unseen figure who has apparently just jumped in from a diving board.
A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán, 1985. A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán is a 1985 painting by the British artist David Hockney.. Hockney painted A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard after discovering a hotel courtyard in Mexico, when car trouble forced him to stop on the way while driving to Mexico City.
David Hockney: The Blue Guitar exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, April 10 – July 10, 1979. The Museum of Modern Art holds a solo exhibition dedicated to the suite in the Sachs Galleries, titled David Hockney: The Blue Guitar. Alongside the twenty prints, two cancelled copper plates and five black and white cancellation proofs are also ...
A Bigger Grand Canyon is a 1998 painting by David Hockney consisting of 60 canvases (in a 12x5 arrangement) that produce one large (7.4m-wide) picture. It hangs in the National Gallery of Australia, which bought it in 1999 for $4.6 million. [1]
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972.It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), [1] and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.
Bigger Trees Near Warter or ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique is a large landscape painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 460 by 1,220 centimetres or 180 by 480 inches, [2] it depicts a coppice near Warter, Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and is the largest painting Hockney has completed.