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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…
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…
Awh man. This is so sad. His dachshund collection was my favorite - https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1995
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…
Originally on iPhone — he used an app called Brushes, by Steve Sprang.
https://www.artforum.com/features/abstract-expressionism-wea...
I'm in no way asserting that Colville restored the human form to art either, just observing that Hockney was far for alone in using the human form to convey aspects of his meaning.
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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 se…
Perhaps you're referencing the New York Post rather than the Times.
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…
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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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.