David Hockney, Homage to Van Gogh and wisps

Left: Homage to Van Gogh, 1988.

Right: Moving wisps. 1995.

It is a party of colors. The right is at a private collection and I feel very sad that such a great painting, that makes our eyes move to one texture to another, is not available to the public.

In the left Hockney homages Van Gogh by recreating the artist famous chair "Chair and Pipe" done in 1888 a century ago. I will do a post about how this chair became part of Van Gogh's iconography.

I created a label for David Hockney because he has been coming here many times.

David Hockney lobbying for "Amend the Tobacco Smoke Ban"

The right picture, depicting artist David Hockney with the Rt Hon Greg Knight MP at the House of Commons, I received by e-mail from Save our Pubs and Clubs.

According to the Tobacco Reporter Magazine:

Hockney decries UK’s busy-bodies and “curtain sniffers” Jun 30, 2011—

"About 250 people gathered at the UK’s House of Commons for a reception aimed at building a groundswell of support for amending the public-places smoking ban cheered loudly when the artist, David Hockney, told them he was fed up with the “curtain sniffers”. Yesterday’s reception, at the Terrace Pavilion, was organized by Forest under the Save Our Pubs & Clubs, Amend the Tobacco Ban banner. Hockney, who has been a smoker for 56 years, told an appreciative audience that he didn’t like busy-body politicians; that he didn’t like the meanness that had entered the anti-tobacco debate; and that he was concerned about the end of the essential Bohemian spirit. He sounded angry but spoke with a twinkle in his eye, and Simon Clark, the director of Forest, described Hockney as the happiest angry man he’d ever heard." (keep reading)

David Hackney has already created his art on a Apple iPhone and recently, above, on the iPad. Revolutionary as always.

David Hockney's enhanced reality

David Hockney was among the pop artists in the sixties but his work is so diverse that it's hard to put any label.

This post was supposed to be about his photocollages where he plays with reality enhancing it's boundaries in a very unique way that inspired many artists. I couldn't make up my mind which works to choose.

His site is a collection of his works that include drawings, paintings, photographies, graphics all part of Hockney's world.

These two paintings are very known and I want to share them with you. The left one seems to be influenced by his collages. I'll post some of them.