Hockney's Pictures

ISBN-13: 9780500286715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Hockney David

Opis

A stunning, lively volume charting almost fifty years of an extraordinary artist's creativity across a range of media, Hockney's Pictures is the definitive retrospective of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century.The pieces are selected and organized thematically by David Hockney himself, tracking his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. Including more than 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures shows the evolution and diversity of Hockney's paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, confirming and reinforcing his position as one of the world's most popular living artists.

Spis treści

Introduction: Loving the world with new eyes - Problems of Depiction: Looking at Pictures - A Marriage of Styles - Stages - Water - Movement - Moving Viewpoint - Life Stilled: Life and Love - Lives - Still Life - Home - Portraits: Friends - Family - Self - Space and Light: South - West - East - North London - Yorkshire

O autorze

David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He has produced work in almost every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and printmaking - and has stretched the boundaries of all of them. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In a 2011 poll of more than 1,000 British artists, Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time. He continues to create and exhibit art.