David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Last Friday, TDSF spent the afternoon at the de Young museum viewing David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Hockney’s 21^st century work.

First noted as a painter under the British pop art scene, Hockney sustained his fame through his oversize murals of the English countryside. Many of these were on display at the de Young, usually with just one mural taking up an entire interior wall. Hockney’s use of scale, color, and multiple perspectives gave typical landscape scenes a greater sense of grandeur and excitement. Experiments with other media were also on display, including Hockney’s work with iPad paintings and multi-frame “patchworks” of video. A corner of the exhibit was dedicated to showing the end-to-end process of his iPad paintings, giving the unique experience of being able to watch his images quickly build again and again.

Shout-out to Joanne for the green light on the tour!

photo courtesy of Dave-Pat's excursion to the de Young tower! (Dave- facebook photos are fair game, no?)

http://www.hockneypictures.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/arts/design/recent-david-hockney-work-at-the-de-young-in-san-francisco.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1390398236-n71KgxdLNBve4nII82Mdqg

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