HOCKNEY DAVID, GAYFORD MARTIN.
We don't postpone spring, David Hockney in Normandy.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25129 |
| Format | 160 x 230 mm |
| Détails | 280 p., Publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | PARIS, 2021 |
| Etat | NINE |
| ISBN | 9782021486643 |
As he approached his eighties, David Hockney first sought tranquility in the countryside, a place to watch the sunset and the changing seasons, a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and the lockdown hit, it didn't change much about life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney had set up his studio a year earlier.
Spring Can't Be Postponed is a manifesto celebrating art's ability to entertain and inspire. It draws on a wealth of previously unpublished conversations and correspondence between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, his longtime friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of previously unseen paintings and drawings created by the artist on his iPad in Normandy, alongside works by Van Gogh, Monet, Brueghel, and others.
Constantly driven forward by his infectious enthusiasm and sense of wonder, always against the grain, but very popular for sixty years, Hockney is not concerned with the opinions of critics. Totally absorbed by his environment and the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees, he has much to teach us, not only about our way of seeing... but also about our way of living.
Spring Can't Be Postponed is a manifesto celebrating art's ability to entertain and inspire. It draws on a wealth of previously unpublished conversations and correspondence between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, his longtime friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of previously unseen paintings and drawings created by the artist on his iPad in Normandy, alongside works by Van Gogh, Monet, Brueghel, and others.
Constantly driven forward by his infectious enthusiasm and sense of wonder, always against the grain, but very popular for sixty years, Hockney is not concerned with the opinions of critics. Totally absorbed by his environment and the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees, he has much to teach us, not only about our way of seeing... but also about our way of living.
Spring Can't Be Postponed is a manifesto celebrating art's ability to entertain and inspire. It draws on a wealth of previously unpublished conversations and correspondence between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, his longtime friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of previously unseen paintings and drawings created by the artist on his iPad in Normandy, alongside works by Van Gogh, Monet, Brueghel, and others.
Constantly driven forward by his infectious enthusiasm and sense of wonder, always against the grain, but very popular for sixty years, Hockney is not concerned with the opinions of critics. Totally absorbed by his environment and the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees, he has much to teach us, not only about our way of seeing... but also about our way of living.