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David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (Spanish: David Hockney: Una Visión Más Amplia; Basque: David Hockney: Ikuspegi Zabalago Bat) was an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from 15 May to 30 September 2012 of recent work of the English painter David Hockney.
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.
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.
February 6–March 4 – Jane Frank, solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; February 7 – Opening of this year's "Young contemporaries" student exhibition at the RBA Galleries in London at which David Hockney exhibits his four "Demonstrations of Versatility" (1961): A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style, Swiss Landscape in a Scenic Style ...
Hockney visited California for the first time in January 1964 after a successful first solo exhibition at the John Kasmin gallery. [2] The United States fascinated him, and Los Angeles in particular, partly because of the influence of Hollywood cinema but also because of the modernist building Case Study House #21.
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 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.
Based on the success of David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition and the good relationships he formed with artist David Hockney and curator Gregory Evans, Benefield was asked to be the first executive director of The David Hockney Foundation in 2017. [31]