David Hockney, (1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
David Hockney's bright swimming pools, split-level homes and suburban Californian landscapes are a strange brew of calm and hyperactivity. Shadows appear to have been banished from his acrylic canvases of the 1960s, slick as magazine pages. Flat planes exist side-by-side in a patchwork, muddling our sense of distance. Hockney's unmistakable style incorporates a broad range of sources from Baroque to Cubism and, most recently, computer graphics. An iconoclast obsessed with the Old Masters, this British Pop artist breaks every rule deliberately, delighting in the deconstruction of proportion, linear perspective, and color theory. He shows that orthodoxies are meant to be shattered, and that opposites can coexist, a message of tolerance that transcends art and has profound implications in the political and social realm.
Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising. What separates him from others in the Pop movement is his obsession with Cubism. In the spirit of the Cubists, Hockney combines several scenes to create a composite view, choosing tricky spaces, like split-level homes in California and the Grand Canyon, where depth perception is already a challenge.
Hockney insists on personal subject matter - another thing that separates him from most other Pop artists. He depicts the domestic sphere - scenes from his own life and that of friends. This aligns him with Alice Neel, Alex Katz, and others who depicted their immediate surroundings in a manner that transcends a particular category or movement.
Hockney was openly gay, and has remained a staunch advocate for gay rights. In the context of a macho art scene that dismissed "pretty color" as effeminate, Hockney's bright greens, purples, pinks, and yellows are declarative statements in support of sexual freedom.
In actively seeking to imitate photographic effects in his work, Hockney is a forerunner of the Photorealists. He is also a heretic among purists who feel that painting should rely only on the artist's direct observations from nature. Though not universally accepted, Hockney's research into the history of art has shown that Old Masters, from Vermeer to Canaletto, frequently used the camera obscura (an early form of camera) to enhance their optical effects. If the revered Old Masters could use cameras, he implies, why can't we?
David Hockney's bright swimming pools, split-level homes and suburban Californian landscapes are a strange brew of calm and hyperactivity. Shadows appear to have been banished from his acrylic canvases of the 1960s, slick as magazine pages. Flat planes exist side-by-side in a patchwork, muddling our sense of distance. Hockney's unmistakable style incorporates a broad range of sources from Baroque to Cubism and, most recently, computer graphics. An iconoclast obsessed with the Old Masters, this British Pop artist breaks every rule deliberately, delighting in the deconstruction of proportion, linear perspective, and color theory. He shows that orthodoxies are meant to be shattered, and that opposites can coexist, a message of tolerance that transcends art and has profound implications in the political and social realm.
Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising. What separates him from others in the Pop movement is his obsession with Cubism. In the spirit of the Cubists, Hockney combines several scenes to create a composite view, choosing tricky spaces, like split-level homes in California and the Grand Canyon, where depth perception is already a challenge.
Hockney insists on personal subject matter - another thing that separates him from most other Pop artists. He depicts the domestic sphere - scenes from his own life and that of friends. This aligns him with Alice Neel, Alex Katz, and others who depicted their immediate surroundings in a manner that transcends a particular category or movement.
Hockney was openly gay, and has remained a staunch advocate for gay rights. In the context of a macho art scene that dismissed "pretty color" as effeminate, Hockney's bright greens, purples, pinks, and yellows are declarative statements in support of sexual freedom.
In actively seeking to imitate photographic effects in his work, Hockney is a forerunner of the Photorealists. He is also a heretic among purists who feel that painting should rely only on the artist's direct observations from nature. Though not universally accepted, Hockney's research into the history of art has shown that Old Masters, from Vermeer to Canaletto, frequently used the camera obscura (an early form of camera) to enhance their optical effects. If the revered Old Masters could use cameras, he implies, why can't we?
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| Mr David Hockney |
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| 1960, The Third Love Painting Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1963, Domestic Scene, Los Angeles Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1964 Man Taking Shower in Beverly Hills Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1966, Portrait of Nick Wilder Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1966-67, Beverly Hills Housewife Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1967 A Lawn Being Sprinkled Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1967, A bigger splash Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1970-71, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1972, Pool with Two Figures Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1972-75, George Lawson and Wayne Sleep Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1977, Model with Unfinished Self-Portrait Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1977, My Parents Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1980, Nichols Canyon Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1981-82, Hollywood Hills House Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1982, Billy + Audrey Wilder Los Angeles April 1982 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1984, Celia with Green Hat Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1984-86, An Image of Celia Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1985 Place Furstenberg, Paris, August 7,8,9, 1985 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1985, Portrait of Mother III Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1986, Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986 #2 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1995, Dog days Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1996, Three Sunflowers And A Bottle of Water Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1997, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Yorkshire Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1997, The Road across the Wolds Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1997, The Road to York through Siedmore Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 1998, Garrowby Hill Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2000, The Gate Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2006, Woldgate Woods Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2008, The Big Hawthorn Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2008, three trees near Thixendale spring 2008 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2010, The Sermon on the Mount II Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2010-11, Under the Trees Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2011 The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2011, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| 2015, Garden Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved Portrait Series
"82 Portraits and One Still-Life"
Each of the 82 portraits that make up the series were composed in his
Los Angeles studio, where Hockney retreated after the accidental death
of his young assistant and close friend Dominic Elliot in 2013. |
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| Barry Humphries, 26th, 27th, 28th March 2015 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Celia Birtwell 31st August-1st 2nd September 2015 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Dagny Corcoran, 15-17 January, 2014 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| David Juda 22nd 23rd 25th March 2015 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Earl Simms 29th February 1st 2nd March 2016 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Edith-Devaney 11th 12th 13th February 2016 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima (JP), 11 July Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| John-Baldessari 13th 16th December 2013 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Margaret Hockney 14th-15th-16th-August-2015 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Rita Pynoos, 1-2 March 2014 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Rufus Hale 23-24-25 November 2015 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Self Portrait, 21 March 2012 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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| Self Portrait, 25 March 2012, No. 3 Copyright © 2017 David Hockney - All Rights Reserved |
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