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David Hockney (1937 - )
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Hockney's Dog Days by
David Hockney, Cjl (Editor)
David Hockney's Dog
Days is the slightest of books, but that may be just fine for
dachshund lovers, who will be its best audience. Hockney's
drawings and paintings of his two dogs are full of tender love.
They are "not very good models," he says. "One
knock on the door is enough to make them leap up." So he
paints them snoozing, mostly horizontal (as dachshunds usually
are), and mostly on yellow and blue backgrounds, which can be
monotonous. These are not the dachshunds of Pierre Bonnard,
who made strange black holes in otherwise glorious canvasses. No
matter: Hockney offers "no apologies." Speaking as a dog
lover, he explains, "These two little creatures are my
friends." (Amazon.com)
 David
Hockney (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 17) by Peter
Clothier
Hockney's engaging
personality, his quirky but always enlightening ideas about art,
and his inexhaustible inventiveness are captured with clear-eyed
intelligence and grace in this volume from Abbeville's renowned
Modern Masters series.
For a contemporary artist of
serious aesthetic purpose, David Hockney enjoys immense, perhaps
unequaled public visibility: the shock of dyed blond hair, the
owlish glasses, and the shy, schoolboy grin are known as much
through the popular press as through the journals of the art
world. His engaging personality, his quirky but always
enlightening ideas about art, and his inexhaustible inventiveness
both of imagery and of techniques ranging from oil painting to
photography to faxes are captured by Peter Clothier with
clear-eyed intelligence and grace in this concise but
comprehensive overview.
From his theatrical early canvases to his more recent photographic
collages and operatic set designs, Hockney has tackled the
challenge of space on a grand scale. At the same time, much of his
work has been devoted to the things most dear to him-friends,
family, home, and studio. An intellectual of wide-ranging
erudition and a world traveler who makes his home in Hollywood, he
still cherishes his roots in Bradford, the northern British town
where he was born in 1937.
Invention, the driving force behind Hockney's art, is in good part
play: "If art isn't playful," he once commented,
"it's nothing." This illuminating, color-rich volume
conveys with vivid clarity Hockney's serious delight in making art
that gives pleasure to both its creator and its audience.
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From artchive.com
David Hockney has always denied being a Pop
artist but is included under this heading because this is how the
public perceives him. The most highly publicized British artist
since the Second World War, he occupies a position analogous to
that which was once accorded to Augustus John - one irony of this
being that for John's exuberant heterosexuality Hockney
substitutes a publicly acknowledged homosexuality...
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The 1853 Gallery houses a permanent exhibition
of over 300 works by David Hockney.
The exhibited works demonstrate the large range
of styles and techniques used by this famous artist (including
computer generated and enhanced images).
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From The Knitting Circle
Listed at number 64 in the top 500 lesbian and
gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 26th. September, 1997, issue
500, page 17.
In 1999 the Royal Academy in London displayed
paintings by David Hockney in its summer exhibition. It was the
first time a whole room had been devoted to one artist at the
annual summer exhibition. His paintings of the Grand Canyon won
the £26000 Wollaston award for the best work at the show.
On 8th. June 2000 he was awarded an honorary
doctorate of letters at Leeds University. The press was keen to
note that he wore red corduroy slippers. This was his fourth
honorary award.
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By Tom Staudek
Excerpt
Born in 1937 at Bradford. Between 1953 and 1957
he studied at the Bradford School of Art. A conscientious
objector, he spent his National Service working in a hospital
until 1959. From 1959 to 1962 he studied at the Royal College of
Art, London. Here he met R.
B. Kitaj and other founders of English Pop Art, and saw
American Abstract Expressionist paintings. From 1960 he began
showing in the Young Contemporaries exhibitions at the RBA
Galleries and read the Complete Works of Walt Whitman. By 1961 he
had done his first Tea Paintings and Love Paintings,
painted compositions consisting of consumer goods images and
psychograms. More than any others, these pictures showed his
proximity to Pop Art...
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© 10 Sep 1995, Nicolas Pioch
Excerpt:
British painter, draughtsman, printmaker,
photographer, and designer. After a brilliant prize-winning career
as a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved
international success by the time he was in his mid-20s, and has
since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British
artist of his generation. His phenomenal success has been based
not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also
on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable
figure even to people not particularly interested in art: a film
about him entitled A Bigger Splash (1974) enjoyed
considerable popularity in the commercial cinema...
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From eyestorm.com
One of the most popular
contemporary British artists, David Hockney had immediate success
as a young, precocious artist. A contemporary at London's Royal
College Art of artists like RB Kitaj, Allen Jones, and Peter
Phillips, Hockney won the college's gold medal for 1962, before
going on to have a solo exhibition the very next year with dealer
John Kasmin at age 26...
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