David Hockney - London visit

I went to visit the Hockney exhibition in London because it had had rave reviews. However, I am usually not that fond of his work yet, I was pleasantly surprised. His use of vibrant colours purple being a colour that particularly stood out for me and studying certain areas of East Yorkshire throughout the seasons. It was also pretty resent work that was exhibited the latest I think was around 2005. He has also used interesting Medias drawing on an ipad, which I did not even know you could do. Making photomontages of huge landscapes was one of my favourite elements. There was also a massive room, which had two large screens in it with 18 different camera angles of the same path but in contrasting seasons so winter beside summer moved slowly down the path of different roots, fascinating to look at and I did not know which screen to look at. Here are some example of some of his pieces that were available by postcard however I often find they never put the best images on which is a shame. This were a few which I rather liked

This particular piece would be brilliant to do a colour study from, extract colours from a certain section, to make a colour chart.

In a lot of Hockney’s pieces he mimic the different angles effect on different canvas as seen on these to pieces on above and one below. You know they are all part of the same image but something just makes each individual canvas a piece on their own because there are so many elements in each. How funny would it be if he sold each canvas individually and these owners realised they only had one element of this artist’s puzzle. I could be a process that brings 6 strangers together because they want to complete the puzzle.



With all these very vibrant pieces he has some that had more natural colours one example is the piece below they still are quite lively but more subtle then his others. When looking at Hockney’s work there is still this rushed undetailed and childlike element to it, which complements these natural landscapes, however, in other piece I thought it made him look like a 10 year old with a paintbrush. Another aspect I very much enjoyed was looking at his sketchbooks his is amazing at transforming a page with a piece of charcoal and uses some much drawing to influence his final pieces. I feel this is very important and need to use drawing more as a tool to inform and develop my work for Unit X.