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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.
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and may be found as a ...
The two became lovers, and Hockney started painting a series of pool pictures, often featuring Schlesinger. A few of these, such as Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool (1966), A Bigger Splash (1967) and Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972), later achieved iconic status. On 15 November 2018, the latter set a world record for the ...
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
An infinity pool [note 1] is a reflecting pool or swimming pool where the water flows over one or more edges, producing a visual effect of water with no boundary. Such pools are often designed so that the edge appears to merge with a larger body of water such as the ocean, or with the sky, and may overlook locations such as natural landscapes ...
The diver is not visible, presumably still under the water. Beside the pool is a pink patio with black margin, and some cacti in a square flower bed. The pavilion has a white wall and grey roof, with a curtain and reflections in its large sliding glass doors. Behind is some featureless green scenery, and a cloudless lighter blue sky.
The pool is known for its Art Deco designs and the popular introduction of the bikini by Louis Réard on 5 July 1946. [2] The pool was classified as a French monument historique on 27 March 1990, after having fallen into disuse and closing in 1989. [3] The swimming pool complex was rebuilt from scratch in the style of the previous historic design.