The exhibition, which next year will tell the London Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the famous British artist, in addition to traditional painting, will present paintings, painted on the iPad, as well as they shot movies

David Hockney on the background of his work at the exhibition
at Tate Modern in 2009
Source: guardian.co.uk

The following year the Royal Academy of Arts in London will present a major exhibition of works famous British author David Hockney (David Hockney), which will show the fruits of seven years of creative pursuit of the artist, including his new genre - video. Many experts call David Hockney one of the most influential artists of his generation, and some even consider it a major of British painters still alive (that title, according to some experts, came to him after his death this summer, the world-master of portrait painting by Lucian Freud).

Who knows, maybe in the near future discoveries and inventions Hockney will be used on television and in Hollywood? The artist joked that his film-scenery "could save the cinema." To create your own videos by Hockney used a nine-shot cameras, and the results - large-scale mobile landscapes - are shown on multiple screens at the same time. "After a couple of weeks, I'll show it to his friends in Hollywood" - said the artist told The Guardian. Video works Hockney depicting the same scenery, changing from one season to another. The shooting took place in Bridlington, a resort town in Yorkshire where recently lived and worked in Hackney. In his art, Hockney sang east Yorkshire, just as once in his works praised John Constable of Suffolk.

to master a new exhibition has trained more than 150 works, including paintings, drawings, sketches albums, as well as drawings by Hockney by iPad. This fashionable device gives the artist greater freedom during his attacks on the plein air ( interesting that earlier" advanced "classic already mastered and used in his work iPhone ). Marco Livingstone (Marco Livingstone), one of the curators of a new exhibition Hockney said that the artist" everywhere takes it [iPad] with him, he replaces him oil paints, watercolors, ink, pencils and brushes. "According to the curator, the tablet allows Hockney work, where it caught the inspiration, as well as new works are constantly share with friends. to create paintings Hockney uses the iPad application Brushes, which you can draw to the screen prikacayas finger or a special pencil. Livingstone believes that such work is difficult with something comparable. According to him, in printed form, they resemble both gouache and watercolor, but transparent paint than using gouache, and richer than watercolor.

In general, the finest in Livingston expressions described technical skill and confident style of new works by Hockney. According to the curator, "work that he [Hockney] wrote in 2005 - the most impressive collection of works created out of all them. "David Hockney did not contradict his mentor and ironically pointed out that" any artist will tell you that a work created yesterday - the best in his life. "< /p>

main "actors" of the upcoming exhibition will, no doubt, major, collected from several canvases "proprietary" Hockney landscapes (for example, his work "Winter Forest" in 2009 in blue and violet colors consists of 15 canvases joined together). "Many people look and stare at, but do not see, - said the artist about his special ability to peer into the landscape and find it unusual features and views. - Enjoy the beauty of the landscape - it's getting pleasure from the lively three-dimensionality ". Dedicating a few years scenery, 74-year-old artist now wants to return to them no less beloved genre - portrait.

Academy of Arts, is hosting an exhibition Hockney in 2004, and at this time not stingy, highlighting the vast exhibition space for the new exhibition of the artist. The exhibition will not become a full retrospective of Hockney's work, but the curators to give viewers a better understanding of the creative way of the master, also included in her work Hockney 50-90s of last century.

David Hockney exhibition will become part of London's "Cultural Olympiad" in 2012, anticipating and setting off a program of sports Olympics.

Prepared by Mary Estrova , AI

Source : artinvestment.ru