{"id":29309,"date":"2025-03-10T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/?p=29309"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:59:57","slug":"david-hockney-painting-pools-and-photographing-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/david-hockney-painting-pools-and-photographing-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hockney, painting pools and photographing nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between pop art and hyperrealism, the work of David Hockney is plural but recognizable. Named a member of the British Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II, the English artist has been able to move from acrylic painting to photography while capturing the era of time to evolve his work.<\/p>\n

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Born in 1937 in Bradford, UK, David Hockney studied fine arts in 1953 and joined the Royal College of Art in London six years later.<\/p>\n

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A $90 million project<\/h3>\n

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His first job starts at the Sunday Times, where he is appointed press cartoonist during a trip to Egypt. When he arrived in California in 1964, in Los Angeles, the aspiring artist took a passion for the games of transparency and the relief of swimming pools.<\/p>\n

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David Hockney then blends into this solar and hedonistic environment. The painter is inspired by this cool and uninhibited life to create several paintings. Influenced by Vermeer, Fra Angelico, Picasso and Matisse, David Hockney completed his legendary series Pool Paintings in 1972 with The Little Splash, The Splash and A Bigger Splash.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 David Hockney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Portrait of an artist (Swimming pool with two characters) in 1972 is one of his best known works, representing two characters, one swimming underwater and the other looking at the swimmer. It was awarded over $90 million (nearly \u20ac83 million) at an auction at Christie\u2019s in New York in 2018, a record for a living artist to surpass Jeff Koons.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 David Hockney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In the 1970s, he turned to photography and created assemblages of photographs taken from various points of view (\u00abjoiners\u00bb) as well as portraits and landscapes using a Polaroid. He imagines a series of double portraits, with Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy (1970-1971) and Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (1968).<\/p>\n

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Inspired by nature<\/h3>\n

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While in Paris, the Mus\u00e9e des Arts d\u00e9coratifs organized a retrospective on the artist in 1974. In the 1980s and 1990s, David Hockney placed more emphasis on nature. One example is A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). In 1999, he is exhibited at the Centre Georges-Pompidou.<\/p>\n

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