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Aug 25, 2011 · Although Hockney may have been one of the first English painters of the postwar generation to visit Los Angeles and certainly the first to produce an extensive record of the city, examples of English modern art already graced Los Angeles homes well before he made his debut on the scene.
Oct 24, 2011 · In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.
- Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
- Lorenzo Lotto, Husband and Wife, 1523–1524
- Hans Holbein The Younger, The French Ambassadors to The English Court, 1532
- Robert Campin, The Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), C1425–C1430
One of the earliest examples we have found of a painting that exhibits a variety of evidence that the artist-based portions of it on optical projections is shown in Fig. 11.1. Several different types of optical analysis demonstrate the chandelier, enlarged in Fig. 11.2, is based on an optical projection. The advantage of an optical projection of a ...
“Family Portrait” by Lorenzo Lotto (1523–1524) shown in Fig. 11.5 provides considerable quantitative information about the lens that optical evidence indicates Lotto used in creating this painting. Figure 11.6 is a detail from Husband and Wifeshowing an octagonal pattern on an oriental carpet that appears to go out of focus at some depth into the p...
A prominent feature of The French Ambassadors to the English Court by Hans Holbein is the anamorphic skull at the bottom of the 1532 painting. This feature is shown in Fig. 11.10. The way this appears to someone viewing it at a grazing angle is shown by linearly compressing it by 6× in Fig. 11.11 (Right), with a real skull for comparison in Fig. 11...
Robert Campin was a contemporary of Jan van Eyck and they are documented to have known each other. The center and right panels of Robert Campin’s Merode Triptych of c1425B28 contain the earliest evidence we have found to date of the use of direct optical projections. A detail of the right panel is shown at the lower left of Fig. 11.13. As we previo...
Full Text. HE IS PAINTING AGAIN. AYE, IS HE PAINTING. With a zest and a passion and a confidence I haven't witnessed in the nearly two and a half decades that I've been dropping over to visit with him, David Hockney has returned to the wide empty canvas and the oil-laden brush.
Oct 6, 2017 · British artist David Hockney, for example, has recorded the creation of his art on iPads using the app Brushes, where the process is part of the exhibited artwork and revealing its construction – complete with corrections – allows viewers to better appreciate the finished result (Hockney, Citation 2017).
- Alexander Kent
- 2017
Dec 1, 2002 · David Hockney : Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. Jane Partner, Reviewed by. The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2002, Pages 345–349, https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/31.4.345. Published: 01 December 2002.
Oct 28, 2020 · In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, David Hockney opted for a particular application of primer in the ground layers of some of his paintings — that is, a partial or ‘selective’ type of preparation.
