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The exhibition features nearly 200 works spanning over six decades of Hockney’s career — from his earliest etchings in the mid-1950s and ’60s to his recent experiments with iPad and ...
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.
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.
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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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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.