David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
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Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#2Please use non-paywalled links for general news, eg:
David Hockney: Art's great innovator whose vivid paintings made him a household name
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#3His embrace of new technology was interesting, in particular the fact he's been doing a lot of work on an iPad since 2010. You can see many of them here[1]. I went to an exhibition[2] of these a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by them. Goes to show that it's the artist and the talent, not the tools.
[1] https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/digital/ipad
[2] https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/article-david-hockne...
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#4Apart from just being so beautiful, so full of attention to nature and the world around us, his work also explored how photography can’t capture or communicate the seeing and feeling with two eyes. To that end, he embraced photography, attempted to express movement and volume using photo camera(s), his polaroid works are beautiful, and then he came back to painting. He wrote and spoke about his process and "seeing" the world a lot, I really recommend it if you are into visual arts.
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#5Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/design/david-hockney...
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#6Please use non-paywalled links for general news, eg: David Hockney: Art's great innovator whose vivid paintings made him a household name https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck77rg88gd9o
The Times has an Arts section, art critics, professional obituary writers, and a wealth of background in the area.
The BBC article was written by a guy who has precisely two articles published on the BBC.
I don't think it's wrong to want to read the best article, not the cheapest.
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#7His embrace of new technology was interesting, in particular the fact he's been doing a lot of work on an iPad since 2010. You can see many of them here[1]. I went to an exhibition[2] of these a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by them. Goes to show that it's the artist and the talent, not the tools. [1] https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/digital/ipad [2] https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/article…
He was on the BBC messing around with a Quantel Paintbox[0] (although 1987 seems much later than I remember it being.)
[0] https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/painting-with-light-quan...
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#8Apart from just being so beautiful, so full of attention to nature and the world around us, his work also explored how photography can’t capture or communicate the seeing and feeling with two eyes. To that end, he embraced photography, attempted to express movement and volume using photo camera(s), his polaroid works are beautiful, and then he came back to painting. He wrote and spoke about his process and "seeing" t…
His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience.
He talks about it, and you can see some of these works in a YT vid here:
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#9His embrace of new technology was interesting, in particular the fact he's been doing a lot of work on an iPad since 2010. You can see many of them here[1]. I went to an exhibition[2] of these a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by them. Goes to show that it's the artist and the talent, not the tools. [1] https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/digital/ipad [2] https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/article…
He was on the BBC messing around with a Quantel Paintbox[0] (although 1987 seems much later than I remember it being.) [0] https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/painting-with-light-quan...
What strikes me about that is how much "dead air" there is without background music and how much of a long-format that was for broadcast.
You just wouldn't get away with that on TV now, the closest thing is some twitch or youtube streams, but even they'd have relentless background music ( and donation/subscription thank you sounds ) and other media at the same time.
But an actual non-live, edited programme? This whole 90 minute programme would be edited down to a 10 minute segment with endless repetition and audio stings, even on the BBC.
To me this shows how much we've lost from the TV format and the ambition it once had. Somewhere since it has fallen into a weird combination of lack of ambition but with a self-congratulation, where programmes often restate what they are doing as being ground-breaking.
Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
#10Please use non-paywalled links for general news, eg: David Hockney: Art's great innovator whose vivid paintings made him a household name https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck77rg88gd9o
The Times has an Arts section, art critics, professional obituary writers, and a wealth of background in the area. The BBC article was written by a guy who has precisely two articles published on the BBC. I don't think it's wrong to want to read the best article, not the cheapest.
The cheapest? You’re not British are you! ;-)
The BBC’s arts coverage outright humbles the Times and has for decades. (Also better obituary writers IMO, but YMMV). It’s absolutely the BBC I would come to, to read about Hockney, not a Murdoch newspaper.
But inexpensive they are not.
Sam Woodhouse is a senior BBC journalist and that article includes footage from an outstanding BBC arts programme interview by another senior journalist, Katie Razzall.
Hopefully the BBC will interview one of their own greats, Melvyn Bragg, about him. Bragg and Hockney were friends for half a century.