David Hockney

-- zappi (cfca...), June 22nd, 2006 5:28 AM. (joni)

someone to youtube this plz

Am I missing something or are you genuinely surprised by Hockney's Britishness?

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.

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.

I like how she makes Bridlington sound like the edge of the world.

How can it not be with a name like that.

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.

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.

He is 80 even though all the cigarettes - acrylic paint must have anti-cancer properties

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!

anyone growing up in the filth and poverty of postwar Bradford might just become immune to death.

Hasn't he gone a bit gammon in his dotage?

AKA The Yorkshire Disease.

Doe she still have a floor at the Salts Mill in Saltaire? Worth a visit.

it must take some effort to maintain a Yorkshire accent when you've been living in LA for 50 years!

I have been wondering what is the biggest you can print something you make with a koala pad

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!

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.

"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.

Great painter and all time style icon though

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.

I'm always pleased to see creative minds well compensated for their work instead of dying penniless and sad

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!

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

bring on Hockneycoin

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.

I saw the exhibit at the Met two weekends ago; it was impressive! I love turning Cezanne into ad man rendering of homoerotic flatness.

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.

http://www.culturekiosque.com/images/faith1.jpg
lol! They these ppl make Hockney seem like a radical, now some Gilbert and George would be perfect for that kind of setting!

what would they have liked better? Something like gerhars richters cologne cathedral windows?

It is pretty bad tbh

Seriously.

I think Hockney has been bad for most of his career tbh.

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.

hockney is strangely undervalued i think#

― 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.

£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 !

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/

um
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/05/david-hockney-portrait-of-ed-sheeran-to-be-shown-in-uk

u loves to see it!

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!

yes English be my second language!

Finally some publicity for Ed Sheering

fair play to hockney, he's done a bang-up job of capturing sheeran's essential punchability

Ed Sheeran should get his trainered feet off the furniture imo, disgusting savage behaviour

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.

He's really veering into edgy terrain here.

'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