Biography david hockney exhibition 2016

Hockney was born in Bradford, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney (a conscientious objector in the Second World War), the fourth of five children. He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art (where his teachers included Frank Lisle) and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj. While there, Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work. At the Royal College of Art, Hockney featured in the exhibitionYoung Contemporaries—alongside Peter Blake—that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works displayexpressionist elements, similar to some works by Francis Bacon. When the RCA said it would not let him graduate in 1962, Hockney drew the sketch The Diploma in protest. He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be assessed solely on his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA c

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New David Hockney Portrait Exhibition Announced For RA In 2016

A new exhibition of the work of David Hockney RA titled ’77 Portraits, 2 Still Lifes’ has been announced bygd the Royal Academy for Summer 2016. The  exhibition which will take place in The Sackler Wing will consist of recent portrait paintings, which will revisit the genre which has played such a major part across his long career. Vibrant, observant and full of life, these 77 portraits, which Hockney sees as one body of work, include images of friends, family and art world luminaries. Executed over the last couple of years in Hockney’s Los Angeles studio, each portrait is painted on the same sized canvas (48 x 36 inches) and the sitters are seated in the same chair against the same levande blue background. The exhibition will be curated by Edith Devaney in close collaboration with the artist.

Portraits will include the mode designer Ce

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David Hockney (British, b. 1937) has produced some of the most vividly recognizable and influential works of the twentieth century. Hockney gained notoriety in his mid-twenties, after receiving the Gold Medal from London’s Royal College of Art, and he quickly became one of the defining figures of the British Pop Art movement.

In the late 1960s Hockney relocated to California and established himself as a prolific figurative and landscape artist. He is perhaps best recognized for the works he produced there: brightly colored, large-scale evocative images of the Southern California lifestyle, and domestic, intimate portraits of his friends, family, and lovers. Hockney’s works are notable for their quietness of subject, flatness of space, and subtle reduction of form. Throughout his career he has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, collage, photography, and printmaking, often utilizing contemporary technologies, including fax machines, laser