We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961.

David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. He settled in California during the 80's This article discusses the city Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. ... Image File history File links Hockney,_We_Two_Boys_Together_Clinging. ... Image File history File links Hockney,_We_Two_Boys_Together_Clinging. ... The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ...

Early years

Hockney was born in Bradford and educated first at Wellington Primary School (then Wellington first school). He later went to Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj. While still a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries—alongside Peter Blake—that announced the arrival of British Pop Art. He became associated with the movement, but his early works also display expressionist elements, not dissimilar to certain works by Francis Bacon. Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, these works make reference to his homosexuality. From 1963 Hockney was represented by the influential art dealer John Kasmin. In 1963 Hockney visited New York, making contact with Andy Warhol. Later, a visit to California, where he settled, inspired Hockney to make a series of oil paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles. These are executed in a more realistic style and use vibrant colours. He also made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. For other uses, see Bradford (disambiguation). ... Bradford Grammar School was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter as the Free Grammar School of King Charles II in 1662. ... Α This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Royal College in some Commonwealth of Nations countries is technically a college which has received a Royal Charter to add the prefix Royal to its name. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Ronald Brooks Kitaj (October 29, 1932 - October 21, 2007[1]) was an American-born artist who spent much of his life in England. ... There have been several notable individuals named Peter Blake. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish figurative painter. ... Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Portrait of John Kasmin by David Hockney John Kasmin (born 1934) is a British art dealer who along with Robert Fraser promoted British and American Pop Art in the 1960s. ... Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who was a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Mona Lisa, Oil on wood panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... For other uses, see Portrait (disambiguation). ... ... The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, in the Chelsea area of London noted for its contributions to modern theatre. ... Glyndebourne Festival Opera is a opera festival held at Glyndebourne House near Lewes, in southern England. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, by night. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Infatuation with Cliff Richard

Early in his development, Hockney exhibited a distinct crush on rockstar Cliff Richard. Richard was referenced directly and indirectly in Hockney's work. Often Hockney referred to him as 'Doll Boy' after Richard's 1958 hit single Living Doll and many early works have the letters "CR" or "DB" or the numerical representation "42" where 4 represents the D and 2 stands for the B. allah is great Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman. ... Cliff Richard singles chronology Living Doll is a popular song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still The Drifters). ...

Works

The "joiners"

David Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers (~5-150) of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photos are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work which has an affinity with Cubism, an affinity which was one of Hockney's major aims - discussing the way human vision works. Some of these pieces are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway #2, ^[1]others being portraits, e.g. Kasmin 1982,^[2] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.^[3]-1... // Artistic photomontage showing what a complete iceberg might look like under water. ... Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. ... Georges Braque, Woman with a guitar, 1913 Cubism was a 20th century art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. ... Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, c. ... For other uses, see Portrait (disambiguation). ...

These photomontage works appeared mostly between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as "joiners". He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer's perspective. In later works Hockney changed his technique and moved the camera around the subject instead. Perspective when used in the context of vision and visual perception refers to the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes or dimension and the position of the eye relative to the objects. ...

Hockney's creation of the "lergy" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles. He took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photography. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... A narrative is a construct created in a suitable medium (speech, writing, images) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. ...

Later works

A Bigger Splash, 1967

In 1974, Hockney was the subject of Jack Hazan's film, A Bigger Splash (named after one of Hockney's swimming pool paintings from 1967). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (724x726, 67 KB)Low resolution, fair use image of A Bigger Spalsh, 1967. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (724x726, 67 KB)Low resolution, fair use image of A Bigger Spalsh, 1967. ...

Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and a series of pages for the December 1985 issue of the French edition of Vogue magazine. Consistent with his interest in Cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell (who appears in several of his works) with different views—her facial features as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally. For other meanings, see vogue. ... Georges Braque, Woman with a guitar, 1913 Cubism was a 20th century art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. ... Picasso redirects here. ... Celia Birtwell is a textile designer. ...

Another important commission of his was to draw with the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch direct onto the monitor screen. This commission was taken by Hockney in December 1985. Using this program was similar to drawing on the PET film for prints which he had much experience in. His works were so successful that a video was made while he was using the Quantel and broadcast by the BBC. The Quantel Paintbox is a dedicated computer system for performing real time manipulation of video, and creating graphics. ... Biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (boPET) polyester film is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, gas and aroma barrier properties and electrical insulation. ...

A Bigger Grand Canyon, 1998, National Gallery of Australia.

His A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 paintings which combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $4.6 million. Image File history File links Hockney,_A_Bigger_Grand_Canyon. ... Image File history File links Hockney,_A_Bigger_Grand_Canyon. ... National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ... National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ...

On 21 June 2006, his painting of The Splash fetched £2.6m - a record for a Hockney painting [3]. is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In October 2006 the National Portrait Gallery in London organized one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including 150 of his paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and photocollages from over the course of five decades. The collection consisted of his earliest self portraits up into his latest work completed in 2005. ^[4] The exhibition proved to be one of the most successful in the gallery's history, and Hockney himself assisted in displaying the works. The exhibition ran until January 2007. The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in central London which was opened in 1856. ...

In June 2007, Hockney's largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter, which measures 15 x 40 foot, was hung in the Royal Academy's largest gallery in their annual Summer Exhibition.^[5] This work "is a monumental-scale view of a coppice in Hockney's native Yorkshire, between Bridlington and York. It was painted on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over five weeks last winter."^[6] In 2008, he donated this work to the Tate gallery in London, saying: "I thought if I'm going to give something to the Tate I want to give them something really good. It's going to be here for a while. I don't want to give things I'm not too proud of...I thought this was a good painting because it's of England...it seems like a good thing to do."^[7] The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. ... For other uses, see Yorkshire (disambiguation). ... Bridlington beach, from the North Pier Bridlington is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. ... For other uses, see York (disambiguation). ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

Many of Hockney's works are now housed in a converted industrial building called Salts Mill, in Saltaire, in his home town of Bradford. Saltaire mills from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Salts Mill is an art gallery, shopping and restaurant complex located in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. ... Saltaire is the name of a Victorian era model village in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ...

The Hockney-Falco thesis

Main article: Hockney-Falco thesis

In the 2001 television programme and book, Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura techniques, utilized with a concave mirror, which allowed the subject to be projected onto the surface of the painting, leaving the task of the painter to simply match and fill in the colors. Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually to Italy and most of Europe, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting we see in the Renaissance and later periods of art. His theory of the use of this method in Old Master works is seen as incorrect by most optical historians and many art historians^{[citation needed]}. A diagram of the camera obscura from 1772. ... An Old Master (or old master) is one of the great European painters who lived 1500 through 1800, or a painting by one of these painters. ... The camera obscura (Lat. ... This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ...

Public life

A conscientious objector, Hockney worked as a medical orderly in hospitals as his National Service in the 1950s. John T. Neufeld was a WWI conscientious objector sentenced to 15 years hard labour in the military prison at Leavenworth. ... National service is a common name for compulsory or voluntary military service programs. ... The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ...

He was made a Companion of Honour in 1997 and is also a Royal Academician. The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order (decoration). ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

In September 2005 Hockney declared his opposition to the proposed UK ban on smoking in public places.

On 4th June 2008 Hockney critisized Labour's proposed new policy to ban drawings of children, despite admitting that he would probably not bother to vote in the next general election, and admitted he had only voted twice before in his life.

References

See also

• A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan
• Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán is a 1985 painting by British artist David Hockney. ... Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a painting by the British artist David Hockney. ...

External links

• Hockneypictures.com Official website
• DavidHockney.com tribute site
• Salts Mill in Saltaire, Yorkshire, England, contains a permanent exhibition of Hockney's work.
• Peter getting out of Nick's pool (1966)
• New Yorker discussion of Hockney's suggestion that the Old Masters used optical devices to aid drawing
• Hockney leads smoking ban protest BBC article.
• Jonathan Jones, Cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Freud (Interview), The Guardian, 8 September 2006
• A A Gill, The Turner Surprise: David Hockney on Turner, The Times, 17 June 2007