― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
i think that he is the best pure painter that we have, his work has grown more beautiful, and more refined the further he has gotten, with the recent series of large works of the yorkshire countryside taking some of that california light to a anglo world, the colour in those paintings, and the perspectives are radically renewed.
there are other works i love--his swimming pool pictures, not so much splash, but their are several that are so placid, almsot a kind of zen calm, and the double portrait, one nude and one in a suit, is a sly comment on public/private personae, his grand canyon 45 peice suite is epic americeana, his society portraits have a really queer archness, his pencil drawings, esp. male nudes have the sinous desires of matisse and the fuckablity of late picasso, but the rigour of someone like sargent...the best in art history, i think his drawings, and deeply under rated--there is one of two daschunds in a chair, that has a tender devotion to domesticity, and a nude where he actually somewhoe made the arms and pubic region ligthened like tan lines...
there are ones that i like, i like his apartment block in los angeles, with the large brick dingbat and the sprinklers, the etchings for grim, his stage sets for a rakes progress, and the photo collages, esp the ones he did of his mother in winter, and of the large scrabble game, im less fond of pacific coast highway, i also really like the drawings he did of plants, of daffodils, cacti, and the like.
also his sketchbooks are just fucking amazing
i think that and maybe this is changing, he isnt taken very seriously, because of his skill at representation, his belief in the domestic pleasures, his calmness and other reasons i cant quite put my finger on, he really isnt viewed as important as other artists of the 20th century (see the lumpen, brown and black, almost decaying paintings of for example bacon or freud, the angst and the sadness, and the almost self loathing, that make tens of millions, and compare it to the exquisite control of hockney and get back to me--though freud paints much less, draws much less, and his prints/etchings arent as omnipresent as hockney, and bacon is dead so that cant really be made as an arguement, and auchenbach i dont think makes as much money, so i may have painted myself in a corner)
even LA artists (for example, i odnt have the numbers in front of me, but i think that theibaud, his closest american equvilent has done much better then 6m,i think hes broke 10) and i think that now, because LA is starting to ecclipse NY as a historical center of american art (cf the current center pompidou show) that his painting might be at the forefront, though he lacks the irony, the conceptual power, the lingustic games, or the sexy hollywood abjectness of other people in the same place.
maybe he isnt even american? something like this: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1250_ossieclark/img/designs/hockneylg.jpgis much closer to this:http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gainsborough/andrews.jpgthen thishttp://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Image-Library/Warhol/warhol-double_elvis-1963-2.jpg
(though speaking of mechincal reproduction, his book on the use of veiwing instruments in art from the reniassance onwards is really impt, and i thot persuiave, i didnt understand the political controversy that reached it)
(also he rules)
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
for me it looks good at first, and then after long consideration it takes on depths I'd never have guessed at on first viewing
kinda like Magic Eye, only better & more expensive
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
perhaps i should retract that, but i'll keep it. just read further and it seems i've confused it with A Bigger Splash, but the difference isn't all that great. What are Hockney's auction prices vs. Alex Katz?
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
:D
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/6070/simon44kv.jpg
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
your sketch is probably enough to have one hell of a vacation with if not retire, but I'd assume sentimental value will keep it in your house, eh?
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Over 160 works on show for £9 admission. I'll definitely be going along.
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
-- zappi (cfca...), June 22nd, 2006 5:28 AM. (joni)
someone to youtube this plz
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Am I missing something or are you genuinely surprised by Hockney's Britishness?
― Venga (Venga), Friday, 13 October 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Surprised yesterday to find the revised and expanded "Secret Knowledge" leaning on my front door. Only about 100 pgs in right now, but already loving it a lot.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 June 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Still a hero. I'm far less interested in the exact tools he uses as I am in how he continues to explore possible ways of engagement via tools to hand that suit his interests and impulses best.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 January 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how she makes Bridlington sound like the edge of the world.
― Magic Our Maurice! (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 January 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
How can it not be with a name like that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread considerably less busy than the current exhibition at the Royal Academy. Queue snaking outside the door into the courtyard and the rain.
Didn't like it much tbh. So little depth or subtlety. A few of them worked from a distance but when I approached I actually felt the canvas pushing back at me. Ok maybe they're not meant to work up close but I like to appreciate a bit of technique and there wasn't much on offer here.
― i remember when there was time for klax (ledge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
Saw this the other night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRyJ0GyNHw
It was a little all over the place at times, like they weren't sure what kind of tone they were after, but what came through in the end for me were the interview clips with Hockney today. He's got an old man's bemusement and a glint in his eye that are very engaging. I don't think I realized he and Henry Geldzahler were so close.
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 April 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
He is 80 even though all the cigarettes - acrylic paint must have anti-cancer properties
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
I was reading this book by Van Gogh where he is sayign how paint and canvases are kind of expensive but draking is teh cheap way to make art - NOT IF YOU NEED AN IPAD TO DO IT!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
anyone growing up in the filth and poverty of postwar Bradford might just become immune to death.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Hasn't he gone a bit gammon in his dotage?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
AKA The Yorkshire Disease.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Doe she still have a floor at the Salts Mill in Saltaire? Worth a visit.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
it must take some effort to maintain a Yorkshire accent when you've been living in LA for 50 years!
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I have been wondering what is the biggest you can print something you make with a koala pad
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Idk, but you mentioned the acrylic paints and stuff, they are nothing compared to procion dyes. An Uncle of mine spent 30 years working with them and his nickname was Yellow Eddie!
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
He wrote this in 2007
The amount of drugs advertised on television tells me what has replaced tobacco (although 20% still smoke): painkillers, Prozac and antidepressants, mostly prescription drugs - you just tell the doctor what you need. When prescription drugs are advertised in the press there is always a lot of small print listing side effects, and on television you get a speedy talking voice listing the side effects. You perhaps hear one word in four - paralysis, diarrhoea, death, headaches. I expect it all to come here. Drugs (legal and illegal) are the world's largest business, and one can understand why, since they make us feel better.
I think he might have a point. People need emotional crutches and cigarettes might not have been the worst one all things considered.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
"Hasn't he gone a bit gammon in his dotage?"
He came out as a Brexiter last year and did some shitty masthead for The S*n.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Great painter and all time style icon though
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
His lookalike and old pal Bennett was far more eloquant:“I imagine this must be what Munich was like in 1938 – half the nation rejoicing at a supposed deliverance, the other half stunned by the country’s self-serving cowardice,” he wrote.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I'm always pleased to see creative minds well compensated for their work instead of dying penniless and sad
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
If it was a stark choice between dealing with Murdoch rag and living on the streets, then I'm afraid he's still going to the gulag!
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Wish I hadn't known he was a brexiteer tbh
“Brexit didn’t surprise me totally because I’d been living in provincial Britain,” he said. “The power has spread to the people because that’s what the iPhone has done.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/london-letter-david-hockney-a-rare-brexiteer-among-british-cultural-giants-1.2969795
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
bring on Hockneycoin
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Letting some tight old Yorkshire bastard start their own crypto-currency would be a terrible idea: It be ower brass, not yours lad, don't give me that tommyrot about global economies, pal. I've bin to Leeds.
― calzino, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I saw the exhibit at the Met two weekends ago; it was impressive! I love turning Cezanne into ad man rendering of homoerotic flatness.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
The Queen's Window by #DavidHockney and Barley Studios revealed!More about the window on our website: https://t.co/BTSGjBnDAO pic.twitter.com/mVd0HYDFG6— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) September 26, 2018
This has gone down about as well as you would expect.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 30 September 2018 06:49 (five years ago) link
http://www.culturekiosque.com/images/faith1.jpglol! They these ppl make Hockney seem like a radical, now some Gilbert and George would be perfect for that kind of setting!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 September 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
what would they have liked better? Something like gerhars richters cologne cathedral windows?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
It is pretty bad tbh
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Seriously.
― jmm, Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
I think Hockney has been bad for most of his career tbh.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
I mean, I actually agree with one of the replies to that tweet – there are numerous talented stained glass artists in Britain they could have used. Hockney has never done one in his life before, and it shows.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
hockney is strangely undervalued i think#― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:54 (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:54 (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha.
My god, it's grim that that it isn't even one of his good paintings that broke the record.
― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Friday, 16 November 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
£2.6mil is a steal. The Splash is so iconic it'll go for 3-4 times that in a decades time (if it comes up for auction again).
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:11 (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
3 or 4 times !
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Friday, 16 November 2018 09:19 (five years ago) link
I don't know much of Hockney's work, nor am I yearning to, but the newly restored 1974 semidoc/fiction film A Bigger Splash is worth seeing when it comes round.
https://hyperallergic.com/506099/a-bigger-splash-david-hockney-review/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
umhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/05/david-hockney-portrait-of-ed-sheeran-to-be-shown-in-uk
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
u loves to see it!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
maybe his agent has told him his work is getting too expensive for most collectors in recent years and he needs takes to take drastic action to diminish his rep somewhat!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
yes English be my second language!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Finally some publicity for Ed Sheering
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
fair play to hockney, he's done a bang-up job of capturing sheeran's essential punchability
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
Ed Sheeran should get his trainered feet off the furniture imo, disgusting savage behaviour
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
It will be part of an exhibition of portraits by the 82-year-old British artist, entitled Video Brings Its Time To You, You Bring Your Time To Paintings And Drawings, which will also include a canvas of the singer Bruno Mars.
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
He's really veering into edgy terrain here.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
'If his face looks like this', Hockney wrote of Auden while drawing him, 'what must his balls look like?’ pic.twitter.com/eRSCMKAdIr— Sara Wheeler (@saradwheeler) September 2, 2021
― calzino, Thursday, 2 September 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link