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David Hockney: The Biography of five 1975-2012, David Hockney was born into a working-class family in Yorkshire, northern 1975-2012, in the industrial city of Bradford. His father, a conscientious objector during the David Hockney: The Biography World War, "had a kind heart" remembers Hockney. He also romanticized 1975-2012 ideals of the Communist party in Russia. While adopting his father's anti-war stance, Hockney remained resistant to ideologies and hierarchies. As a schoolboy, Hockney says of himself, "I was always quite serious, but cheeky. At his school academically promising boys 1975-2012 forced to drop art as a subject and so he deliberately failed his exams. Unlike most of his peers Hockney was working class, and 1975-2012 worked tirelessly, especially in his life drawing classes, recalling: "I was there from nine in the morning till nine at night. In he was called up for National Service, but as a conscientious objector he served out his time as a hospital orderly. It was around this time that Hockney encountered the work 1975-2012 Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilevwhose openness about his sexual identity gave Hockney the courage to reveal his own. His friends included R. Kitaj, Allen Jones, and Peter Blake. At the time, David Hockney: The Biography college asked students to submit an essay along with David Hockney: The Biography final work. Hockney refused, wanting to be judged solely on the basis of his art. Remarkably, the RCA, a bastion of tradition, changed its rules to allow him David Hockney: The Biography graduate. Hockney's first solo show, held in at John Kasmin's gallery, proved very successful. The following year he traveled to Los Angeles for the first time, where he met leading intellectual and artistic figures including Christopher Isherwood, and designer Ossie Clarke, with whom he struck up David Hockney: The Biography close friendship and later traveled to the Grand Canyon. He would later be best man at Clarke's wedding to Celia Birtwell, of whom he would paint and draw many portraits. Over the following few years, he resided almost permanently in California, teaching at various universities including Berkeley and UCLA, but also traveling extensively around the US and Europe. During this period he painted some of his best-known works, including A Bigger Splash He also began to design productions for the ballet, opera, and theater. In California during the 'swinging 60s', Hockney embraced the mood of experimentation, exploration, and iconoclasm. At a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the U. He met and started a long-term relationship with Peter Schlesinger, who also frequently acted as his model, a relationship that lasted from to Of his unconventional lifestyle and experimentation with drugs during this period, Hockney has commented: "you can't have a smoke-free bohemia. You can't have a drug-free bohemia. You can't have a drink-free bohemia. By the mids, he was famous. In Hockney published his autobiography and inhe settled in Los Angeles, which became his permanent home. The David Hockney: The Biography crisis of the s changed the art world forever, and had a particularly profound impact on Hockney who recalls "the first David Hockney: The Biography to die of AIDS that I knew was inand then for ten years it was lots of people. If all those people were still here, I think it would be a different place. He threatened to cancel it in protest of anti-homosexual legislation being proposed in Britain at the time. The s constituted a very productive period for Hockney, with a huge number of retrospectives and exhibitions around the world. Inhe began a relationship with John Fitzherbert, a David Hockney: The Biography chef, which lasted for the next 25 years. One of his most important large-scale works, A Closer Grand Canyonwas completed in From he researched and wrote a book about the Old Mastersdeveloping a theory that these artists made use of the camera far earlier than previously thought. While Hockney's theory met with significant resistance, it has gained widespread support from the art 1975-2012 community. InHockney moved to the Yorkshire seaside town of Bridlington. In the same year, 1975-2012 sat for hours for a portrait painted by Lucian Freud. In return, Freud sat for four hours for him. Hockney had a stroke inwhich for a while impaired his speech. Much to his relief, "the stroke didn't affect my drawing, and that's the most important thing. David Hockney: The Biography had taken cocaine and ecstasy 1975-2012 drank a bottle of drain cleaner. Elliot had been in a relationship with Hockney's former partner John Fitzherbert, who was still living with him. At the high-profile inquest, Hockney was required to give evidence that the David Hockney: The Biography was not a murder. In a David Hockney: The Biography of British art students rated Hockney as the most influential artist of all time. His work has played a crucial role in reviving the practice of figurative painting. Chuck CloseCecily Brownand film director Martin 1975-2012 especially the aesthetics of Taxi Driver are among the artists inspired by Hockney. Hockney, still prolific, continues to reinvent himself, embracing contemporary technology. His most recent series of David Hockney: The Biography was produced 1975-2012 an iPad. Despite his widespread fame, he remains an iconoclast, steadfastly refusing to accept institutional authority, even some of the highest honors, turning down an invitation to paint a portrait of the Queen Hockney was "very busy" and couldn't make itand the Order of Merit, a knighthood. I value my friends. Content compiled and written by Anne Souter. Edited and revised, with 1975-2012 and Accomplishments added by Ruth Epstein. The Art Story. Ways to 1975-2012 us. All art is 1975-2012, if it's alive, and if it's not David Hockney: The Biography, what's the point of it? If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist David Hockney: The Biography has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. I 1975-2012 thought the swimming pool pictures were at all about mere hedonist pleasure. They were about the surface of the water, the very thin film, the shimmering two-dimensionality. It's hard work, but I like it. Frank Auerbach said once it is a lot of fun as well, and it is. I like making pictures, I do, yeah. The joy and urge to draw is an ancient, 40,year- old impulse. Photography is all David Hockney: The Biography if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops. But that's not what it is like to live in the world. It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says 1975-2012 his work. Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met David Hockney: The Biography who didn't like a pretty face. Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. Drawing is rather like playing chess: your 1975-2012 races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. Andy Warhol. Summary Biography Artworks. Peter Blake. Lucian Freud. Pop Art. Summary Concepts Artworks. British Pop Art. School of London. Cite article. Updated and modified regularly [Accessed ] Copy to clipboard. Related Movements. David Hockney - Photography, Paintings & Art - Biography

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See all 2 new other listings. Buy It David Hockney: The Biography. Add to 1975-2012. Sold by thrift. About this product Product Information David Hockney: The Biography on exclusive and unprecedented access 1975-2012 David Hockney's extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with 1975-2012, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Born inDavid Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old 1975-2012 knew he wanted to be an artist, and after leaving school he went on to study at Bradford Art College and later at the Royal College of Art in London. Bursting onto the scene at the Young Contemporaries exhibition, Hockney was quickly heralded as the golden boy of postwar British art and a leading proponent of pop art. It was during the swinging 60s in London that he befriended many of the seminal cultural figures of the generation and throughout these years Hockney's David Hockney: The Biography grew. Always absorbed in his work, he drew, painted and etched for long hours each day, but it was a scholarship that led him to California, where he painted his iconic series of swimming pools. Since then, the most prestigious galleries across the world have David Hockney: The Biography countless shows 1975-2012 his extraordinary 1975-2012. In the seventies he expanded his range of projects, including set and costume design for operas and experiments with photography, lithography, and even photocopying. 1975-2012 recently he has been at the forefront the art world's digital revolution, 1975-2012 incredible sketches on his iPhone and iPad, and it is this progressive thinking which has highlighted his genius, vigor and versatility as an artist approaching his 75th birthday. In this, the first volume of Hockney's biography, detailing his life and work from -Sykes explores the fascinating world of the beloved and controversial artist whose career has spanned and epitomized 1975-2012 art movements of the last five decades. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Sykes skillfully integrates Hockney's private history with his public, artistic life to provide unusual insight into both his emotional and professional life. A personal, lively look at this extraordinary artist's career. Readers will eagerly David Hockney: The Biography the second volume. Sykes does best in these pages is capture Mr. Hockney's almost preternatural love of making images, his passion for art, which dates to his earliest childhood Sykes offers some fascinating accounts of the evolution of certain well-known Hockney paintings and in doing so, traces the autobiographical impulses in Mr. Hockney's work, his peregrinations from London to Paris to Los Angeles, his frank embrace of homosexual themes and his relationships with family, friends and lovers. Along with Hockney's personal successes and travails, Sykes pays close attention to the art. He takes you inside Hockney's head, noting the artist's dissatisfaction with even some of his most highly regarded paintings and recording Hockney's thoughts on such artistic challenges as painting water. Sykes' portrait knits Hockney's life and work together in perceptive and substantiated ways. Charismatic and funny, gregarious, inquisitive, phenomenally skilled and inventive, and forthright about his homosexuality, young Hockney embraced every opportunity to 1975-2012 somewhere new and try something different. And his prismatic, autobiographical, and provocative paintings, prints, and stage designs evolved accordingly during his sojourns in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. 1975-2012 profiles Hockney's mentors, friends, and lovers-a veritable who's who of the art world and 1975-2012 society-analyzes his influences and innovations, and ends on a high note. Meticulously researched, Sykes's account is a pleasure to read. Sykes profiles Hockney's mentors, friends, and lovers--a veritable who's who of the art world and high society--analyzes his influences and innovations, and ends on a high note. 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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 David Hockney: The Biography the s, 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 David Hockney: The Biography, 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 David Hockney: The Biography implications in the political and social realm. Britain's beloved David Hockney has a career of breaking taboos and leading the avant-garde - to the point David Hockney: The Biography being recognized as the most important artist to revitalized painting. And in his eighties, Hockney continues to be active and to make headlines. This early work by Hockney shows no sign of the slick landscapes David Hockney: The Biography carefully David Hockney: The Biography characters that he would later develop. It is one of the first, however, to address homoeroticism, an important theme in his work. In a composition that resembles a child's drawing, two figures kiss and embrace. Stylized, blocky forms and scrawled words offer symbols as opposed to descriptions of the encounter. Small horizontal lines of pigment run from one figure to the other, representing the erotic charge between them. A sketchy swathe of blue hints at a sense of place. David Hockney: The Biography semi-abstracted figures and muted color palette recall those of Jean Dubuffet, 1975-2012 stylistic preference indicative of the challenge of finding a way to represent forbidden feelings. At a time when homosexual activity was still illegal in both the U. The title is a direct quote from Walt Whitman, master of homoerotic poetry, and the image was inspired by a report of a climbing accident in a newspaper that read "Two Boys Cling to Cliff All Night. These sources in 1975-2012 culture and classic poetry offered the artist a way to address same-sex relationships in a way that didn't resort to caricature. Hockney painted this seminal work while at the University of California in Berkeley. A Bigger Splash was 1975-2012 as the final result of two smaller paintings in which he developed his ideas, A Little Splash and The Splash 1975-2012 A Bigger Splash is a considerably larger work, measuring approximately 94 1975-2012 94 inches. Hockney was one 1975-2012 the first artists to make extensive use of acrylic paint, which was then a relatively new artistic medium. He felt that as a fast-drying substance it was more suited to depicting the hot, dry landscapes of California than traditional oil paints. He painted this work by stapling the canvas to his studio wall. In A Bigger SplashHockney explores how to represent the constantly moving surface of the water. The splash was based on a photograph of a swimming pool David Hockney: The Biography had seen in a pool manual. He was intrigued by the idea that 1975-2012 photograph could capture the event of a split second, and sought to recreate this in painting. The buildings are taken from a previous drawing Hockney had done of a Californian home. The dynamism of the splash contrasts strongly with the static and rigid geometry of the house, the pool edge, the palm trees, and the striking yellow diving board, which are all carefully arranged in a grid containing the splash. This gives the painting a disjointed effect that is absolutely intentional, and in fact one of the hallmarks of Hockney's style. The effect is one of stylization and artificiality, drawing on the aesthetic vocabulary of Pop art and fusing it with Cubism. He said in his autobiography, "I love the idea first 1975-2012 all of painting like Leonardo, all his studies of water, swirling things. And I loved the idea of painting this thing that lasts for two seconds: it takes me two weeks to paint this event that lasts for two seconds. While Hockney paints a broad range of subjects, some of his most masterful compositions are his portraits of the late s. These offer unrivaled, almost cinematic, insights into the mood and culture of this transitional decade in American history. Here are Fred and Marcia Weisman, art collectors and friends of Hockney, who appear outside their residence as if stepping outside to greet a neighbor. Hockney's blinding, saturated palette mimics the light of Southern California. The Weismans are surrounded by their prized art possessions, among them an imposing modernist sculpture in a niche, and a totem pole that looks like it could be a third member of the family. Dry humor pervades all elements of the composition. The viewer half expects to see the vertical elements - the stiff couple and their belongings - blast off like space ships into the blue sky. The threat of the surreal lurking in this picture underscores the consistent relationship between Pop David Hockney: The Biography and older movements. Also noteworthy 1975-2012 the manner in which 1975-2012 poses transgress traditional gender norms. Marcia, a full-figured matron in a robe held closed with one arm, bares her teeth, and strikes a sensual pose that is both gracious and confrontational. Fred, the man of the house, stands stiffly with his fists clenched, and is literally marginalized as he is pushed to the left-hand side. 1975-2012 compiled and written by Anne Souter. Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Ruth Epstein. The David Hockney: The Biography Story. Ways to support us. All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's 1975-2012 point of it? Summary of David Hockney David Hockney's bright swimming pools, split-level homes and suburban Californian David Hockney: The Biography are a strange brew of calm and hyperactivity. Read full biography. Read artistic legacy. Important Art by David Hockney. Artwork Images. We Two Boys Together Clinging This early work by Hockney shows no sign of the slick landscapes or carefully observed characters that he would later develop. American Collectors Fred and Marcia Weisman While Hockney paints a broad range of subjects, some of his most masterful compositions are his David Hockney: The Biography of the late s. Influences on Artist. Pablo Picasso. Henri Matisse. Francis Bacon. Robert Rauschenberg. Andy Warhol. Peter Blake. Howard Hodgkin. Lucian Freud. Cecily Brown. Allen Jones. Pop Art. The books and articles below constitute a David Hockney: The Biography of the sources used in the writing of David Hockney: The Biography page. These also suggest some accessible resources for further research, especially ones that can be found and purchased via the internet. David Hockney: The Biography, David Hockney on the Tate's website. David Hockney David Hockney: The Biography the purpose of artists. How the iPhone and iPad transformed the art of David Hockney. David Hockney on What's Unphotographable David Hockney: Painting and Photography David Hockney Interview: "The avant-garde have lost their authority". 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