David Hockney
I just discovered an amazing contemporary artist & would like to share some of his work b/c it is beautiful & inspiring.
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One of many paintings that drew from the artist’s life. His art acquaints us with his parents, his boyfriends, even his dachshunds.
David Hockney/Tate, London 2017
Defies the laws of perspective by seeming to advance and recede at the same time.
Depicts the artist’s living room and harks back to Matisse’s 1920s paintings of hotel rooms in Nice, France.
Updates the perspective of a canvas by Meindert Hobbema, a Dutch painter of the Golden Age.
“Most photographers think that the rules of perspective are built into the very nature of photography, that it is not possible to change it at all. For me, it was a long process realizing that this does not have to be the case.”
