David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
The Big Hawthorne, 2008. © David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt.
- Date
- Saturday 21st January - Monday 9th April 2012
- Place
- Royal Academy, W1
- Tickets
- Advanced booking strongly recommended
- Learn More
- http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/
The Royal Academy showcases David Hockney's latest vibrant and detailed works, adding to a successful 50 year career.
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture is the first major exhibition to explore David Hockney’s enchantment with landscape of his native country. His re-engagement with the terrain of East Yorkshire, which he knew well as a youth, takes the form of vast canvases alive with bright, saturated colour that atmospherically capture the changing seasons. Like Monet with his Waterlilies, Hockney picks a motif - be it a hawthorn bush or striking line of trees - and returns throughout the year to study how the setting mutates, blooms and decays.
Although the majority of the 150 artworks on display were created in the past eight years, the exhibition also casts back to the mid-50s when Hockney was an art student at the Royal Academy and then in the 60s as a young Pop artist working in LA.
The wonderfully immersive, large-scale pieces were exclusively commissioned for the Royal Academy of Arts when they approched Hockney about the show back in 2007. As well as referencing past masters of the landscape genre, such as Lorrain and Poussin, Hockney brings his iconic style to contemporary mediums with his innovative iPad drawings and a new series of films made with 18 cameras.
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