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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

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Post by beedeebeedee »

dofm wrote: post #18
reaperducer wrote: post #12

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The BBC’s arts coverage The link you provided was not to the BBC's arts coverage. It was to a BBC News article, again written by a generalist. The BBC does great things with the arts. I have been listening to BBC on shortwave since before you were born, and know it very often excels in that area. But this is not that. You are comparing two different things. not a Murdoch newspaper. The New York Times is not a Murdoch…

Oh, I made a tiredness error re: the NY Times, yes, sorry. (I have some memory issues, rather than being an idiot; the Times of London is Murdoch). In what was otherwise a simple and good-natured defence of the BBC on a topic they are quite good at. For reference, I did not post the BBC link. That was someone else, wasn't it? What the heck is the rest of this personal character demolition you are doing? (Absolutely c…

Stick around. The forum has some problems (like the confidently wrong commenter above), and needs curious, good faith folk to enliven the discussion.

Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Post by dofm »

bookofjoe wrote: post #27
dofm wrote: post #10

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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 se…

"... Murdoch newspaper." ? Perhaps you're referencing the New York Post rather than the Times.

This was a tiredness/bad short term memory error because I am British and the comment I referred to just said “the Times”. I do in fact know that the NYT is not Murdoch; the Times (of London) is.

My declining brain jumped the tracks.

FWIW my comment still seems pretty accurate even applied to the NYT. The NYT is without a doubt the better publication to share the short moniker, don’t get me wrong. For all its many contemporary faults, it’s the world’s greatest newspaper. But the BBC’s arts coverage puts it in the shade.

Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Post by saberience »

vanderZwan wrote: post #20

David Hockney has indirectly been incredibly important to me during a very difficult period of my life. Thanks to him I'm probably the only art student to ever win "Best Talk" at a conference for physics students. Over half a lifetime ago now I tried studying physics. I failed miserably at it, and after a few years had to make the difficult decision of dropping out (it would take another 15 years before I would get t…

Thanks for sharing this, what a great story, gave a smile to my day :)

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Post by kjellsbells »

vanderZwan wrote: post #20

David Hockney has indirectly been incredibly important to me during a very difficult period of my life. Thanks to him I'm probably the only art student to ever win "Best Talk" at a conference for physics students. Over half a lifetime ago now I tried studying physics. I failed miserably at it, and after a few years had to make the difficult decision of dropping out (it would take another 15 years before I would get t…

You could say, your talk made A Bigger Splash than you expected.

Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Post by dofm »

beedeebeedee wrote: post #31
dofm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I made a tiredness error re: the NY Times, yes, sorry. (I have some memory issues, rather than being an idiot; the Times of London is Murdoch). In what was otherwise a simple and good-natured defence of the BBC on a topic they are quite good at. For reference, I did not post the BBC link. That was someone else, wasn't it? What the heck is the rest of this personal character demolition you are doing? (Absolutely c…

Stick around. The forum has some problems (like the confidently wrong commenter above), and needs curious, good faith folk to enliven the discussion.

Thank you.

The reason I finally decided to come back was because I saw enough good discussions about local LLMs, that I am using to teach myself some AI stuff, that is the best place to quickly ask and to find people who can explain things without me bothering developers unnecessarily.

HN has always been a good place to ask the side questions you know it's impolite to ask on a Github issue!

Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Post by oneifbutfor »

sherr wrote: post #24
cormullion wrote: post #22

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Originally on iPhone — he used an app called Brushes, by Steve Sprang.

Thanks. I'm sure Sprang loved having Hockney as a user! I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.

> he wasn't a grumpy technophobe.

> I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.

So does that make you the "grumpy technophobe"?

Or is it perfectly reasonable for people to choose to what technology they want without being called a "grumpy technophobe"?

I know for many people on this site their paychecks require them to promote genai trash, but how funny would it be for a successful visual artist to just start prompting their legacy into existence producing the same results that a toddler would get by banging on a keyboard into the same genai prompt input textarea to avoid having people on tech's payroll calling them "grumpy technophobes".

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Post by zimpenfish »

xnorswap wrote: post #9
zimpenfish wrote: post #7

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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 whol…

> This whole 90 minute programme would be edited down to a 10 minute segment

Don't forget that this 90 minute program is itself an edited down version of the original series: "It features four of the original programs in a compiled and edited feature."

Re: David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

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Post by gabrielsroka »

sherr wrote: post #16

I wrote this on another submission here about his death : Inevitable of course. He was getting on in years and starting to show his age. He's an artist I started to really appreciate about 10/15 years ago when visiting the one of his big Royal Academy shows in London. The works were very large, very colourful and monumental. But as well as the huge colourful paintings, his smaller, fine and fragile line drawings of t…

Painting with light, 1987

https://youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro

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