David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape
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David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape Details
David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape illustrates an extraordinary body of painting by the artist, who in recent years, has returned to the pastoral landscape of his youth, in order to capture the vistas and changing seasons of his surrounding environs in Northern England. Five large-scale six-canvas paintings of the Woldgate Woods debuted in Hockney's solo exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery, located in Venice, California (February 9 - March 24, 2007); these same pictures were later exhibited at Tate Britain, London (June 11 - October 28, 2007) and at the Arts Club of Chicago (April 25 - July 18, 2008). Eight smaller paintings from this period are also illustrated in great detail in the catalogue, which features an introduction by L.A. Louver Director Peter Goulds, and text by David Hockney.Designed by Stefan Bucher, 344 Design.
Reviews
An unusual formatted book similiar to an exhibit catalogue only more expensive. I was disappointed in the number of images and text especially for the expense of the book. The images are nicely presented with some attention to details of the work. Some readers may be surprised by the innovative method of outdoor painting where Hockney uses multiple canvases to produce a mammoth connective unified painting. His attention to one motif painted during different seasons reminds me of Monet's Haystack series. The paintings are very painterly which is refreshing after so many decades of photo-based paintings.I would suggest that the reader would enjoy the video, A Bigger Picture, much more. As Hockney deals a lot with space and time concepts in painting the video confirms the limitations of painting but also shows the value of capturing a moment on canvas.
