Today at the Royal Academy in London, a grandiose exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney (David Hockney) - and most of the work on it is the native landscapes for 74 Yorkshire-year old artist, not the image Los Angeles basin, on which this British artist most know.

«David Hockney: a close-up» (David Hockney: A Bigger Picture) - more than 150 landscapes, many of which are wide-ranging and very colorful. Almost all the works written in the last eight years some early landscapes are 1956. And, for example, "Winter Forest» (Winter Timber) 2009 consists of several smaller works and A total of up to nine meters long.

sawed yellow-orange trees are dark purple on the ground, the grass is lush and green and runs away to the horizon bright turquoise avenue of trees. Curators say that this work shows how Hackney is more free in interpretation when drawing from memory, but not from life.

When asked why he decided to return home and devote himself to writing and landscapes of Yorkshire North of England, the artist replied: "I know that local landscapes are very thin and beautiful ... If you were my age and you have something much like it, you could not tear myself away from it».

In an interview on Channel 4 Hockney said that thirty years spent in California, where he created his famous "pool" series, influenced his perception of the homeland. "It really makes the look a little to Britain through the eyes of others. This part and Exhibition. Easy changing of the seasons, though not seen by those who live here permanently, but it becomes something special for someone who has lived long in California "- says the artist.

In support of this idea in the first hall of the exhibition demonstrates the four paintings from the same trees, but the images at different times of the year. This theme can be traced further. For example, in the genre of video art: 18 screens, drawn together, projected the same place, but at slightly different angles and at different times of the year.

And in the hall called "sketch books and iPads» traditional notebooks with sketches side by side with a series of papers created by iPad. Hockney increasingly uses advanced technology . «At first you think it's a novelty. It took some time before I realized how serious this device. I think it's amazing invention "- says Hockney.

The move towards the wonders of the artist's progress does not mean, however, that he rejected all of the old. Influence of past masters such as Vincent van Gogh, apparently in some of his works, a whole room devoted to, for example, painting by French artist Claude Lorrain XVII century "Sermon on the Mount," which saw Hockney in 2009 in New York. His so impressed on canvas spatial effect that he created, large-scale version, bringing the biblical scene of your favorite bright colors.

joyful anticipation of a remarkable artist in the exhibition press was temporarily blurred his criticisms of our colleagues - Damien Hirst. rebuked the leader of Hackney Young British Artists that he does not draw their own work, and resorted to the help of assistants. Right now, all at the same time Larry Gagosian gallery exhibitions of "point" paintings by Hirst, and only a fraction of the exposed works in 1400, he made himself: routine work of writing out circles, that is the lot of assistants Hirst. It does not shy Damien call all of these works by their own ( details about how it works "factory" Hurst, you can read here ). Royal Academy later spoke in defense of Hackney - say, the media quoted statement about Hurst was taken out of context .

At the very same David Hockney, Hockney recently recognized the most influential British artist , honoring him with a strong impression is not made. "Actually, I do not much care. I live in a secluded spot and think and stay here. I'm not very sociable - I'm too deaf to be sociable "- laughing artist.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : bbc . co.uk , artinvestment.ru