David Hockney. My Window

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Hockney’s works are presently held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the J. It wasn't just a celebration of his age but of an artist who had constantly redefined art throughout his career. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. A Bigger Splash is perhaps Hockney’s most notable works – the painting depicts a cloudless, sunny Californian day; the serenity of the scene is disrupted by the splash in the pool which took Hockney two weeks to paint – he has noted that he particularly enjoys the fact that he spent so long depicting a moment that would only last two seconds in reality.

My Window by David Hockney - Signed Edition Coles Books My Window by David Hockney - Signed Edition Coles Books

He made his first digital drawings in spring 2009, describing the morning landscape in broad lines and dazzling colors directly on a display that offered subtle hues as unmixed expressions of pure light. It is perhaps an exercise in how restricting an artist’s subject matter and materials can open new facets of perception and imagination. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style.Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. Of his unconventional lifestyle and experimentation with drugs during this period, Hockney has commented: “you can’t have a smoke-free bohemia. When Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, he opened up entirely new possibilities for painting.

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Since his first big survey exhibition, which in 1970 traveled Europe from the Whitechapel Gallery in London, he has been one of the most widely shown and popular artists of our time.

but this book- with its boasting intro of "I sat in bed all day and drew on my iphone"- is trash IMO, though some of it was indeed pretty.