My Parents
David Hockney, "My Parents", 1977, Oil on canvas
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David Hockney, "My Parents", 1977, Oil on canvas
This series of etchings showing intimate scenes between men was inspired by the writings of Greek Egyptian poet Constantin Cavafy (1863-1933). Since his days at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had admired Cavafy's vivid, unapologetic evocations of homosexual desire. Hockney printed the portfolio in London with Maurice Payne.
David Hockney (British, b. 1937), Mark Lancaster Asleep, 1971. Ink on paper, 14 x 17 in.
Pool and Steps, Le Nid Du Duc, David Hockney, 1971
Hockney found the spectacle of the changing seasons fascinating, and decided to start working on the landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds, near his house in Bridlington (a comfortable base which was once a small hotel). In a way it was a return to his roots, a landscape of memory. He had grown up in Bradford on the other side of Yorkshire, but as a teenager he had worked in the fields in the Yorkshire Wolds during school holidays. And he would visit his late mother and sister who lived in Bridlington. Hockney began this phase of his work by making drawings and watercolours, then painting oils in the open air–like nineteenth-century painters such as Monet and Constable–standing beside the road in all weathers.
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Hoje foi revelada a capa, que tem como base um quadro de David Hockney. O design é de Richard Bravery.
No mais profundo dos invernos dos nossos muitos descontentamentos, vale a pena lembrar que há-de vir aí uma primavera e depois um verão. Por causa disso, ficam duas piscinas, hoje, com dez anos de intervalo entre si mas o mesmo sol californiano. A primeira de David Hockney - John St. Clair Swimming (from Twenty Photographic Pictures), 1972. A segunda de Herb Ritts - Richard Gere – Poolside, 1982.