David Hockney

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