RoGallery Paris Review by David Hockney (Poster)

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Paris Review Poster:

• Poster
• Year: 1981

One of the foremost painters, designers, and photographers of the 20th-century contemporary art scene in the United States and England, David Hockney (1937- ) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He experimented with numerous styles including that of Italian master, Peiro della Francesca, and Hockney became one of the most important portraitists of his era, renowned for depictions of family and people he met in his extensive travels. He studied at Bradford College of Art in 1957 and in 1962 at the Royal College of Art. In the 1960s, much of his work was a homage to his heroes that included Picasso, Dubuffet, and Matisse combined with the influence of Abstract Expressionism. In the mid-1970s, he spent three years in Paris and then traveled to Los Angeles where he did a series of lithographs and also did his first opera design, which was for Stravinsky”s “The Rake”s Progress.” In 1988, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, awarded him an honorary doctorate. He has had numerous one-man shows including at the Kasmin Gallery, 1963-1989; in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1988; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland in 1966; and the Tate Gallery in London in 1988. He has also been a stage set designer for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The paintings are large-scale, impressionist close-ups of the Canyon in the morning light. In 1999, he won the Wollaston award for some of his Canyon paintings, which were exhibited at London”s Royal Academy. In 2001, Hockney”s book “Secret Knowledge” was published by Viking Press and stirred much discussion with his assertion that many of the Old Masters including Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Durer frequently used optical devices to achieve their near perfect realism. His theory is that the mirror, the camera obscura, and the camera lucida were widely used by artists as early as the 1400s and that the introduction of photography in the 19th century freed artists from realism.

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Poster

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Dust with a dry cloth

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RoGallery

Origin:
United Kingdom

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