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Hockney’s Drawing from Life exhibition puts visitors up close and personal with some of the beloved artist’s most important sitters
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.
David Hockney - Britain's greatest living artist was born in the city and studied at Bradford School of Art in the 1950s Andrea Dunbar - the playwright is best-known for 1982's Rita, Sue and Bob ...
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One of the works displayed, the 60 canvas A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). In 2007 the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao stated [1] they had no desire to do a retrospective of Hockney’s works instead, focussing on his current work around his return to the UK, specifically his native Yorkshire, after a long stay in California.
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.
Hockney's 1968 double portrait of Fred and Marcia Weisman, American Collectors, is an intimate replication of the pair at their residence in California. Hockney uses the subjects, the objects, and his own style to recreate a mundane scene that invites both strangers and friends of the couple to ponder their dualistic home that stands as both a ...
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