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| Bigger Trees nearer Warter, Winter 2008 |
The thought of looking at collages of Polaroids or sunny
paintings of swimming pools did not draw me to Hockney’s
Bigger Exhibition but upon viewing the exhibit, he had a great deal to
teach me.
The exhibit is about “seeing.” He uses bright, undiluted
colors in his large au plein aire oil paintings (reminiscent of Van Gough)
taking in the breath of the perspective as he pans across the landscape,
creating a panorama on a 2 dimensional canvas. One painting was an enormous: articulated
trees, vegetaion and flowers, both dreamy and evocative. His use of the
synchronized videos of the Woldgate Woods in the by four season was
mesmerizing. And he breaks boundaries by the use of the iPad to demonstrate the
process of painting.
While I did not get to see a swimming pool painting, I did
see one of his “joiners” (Polaroid collages) of the Brooklyn Bridge. It used
photography to do what Picasso did with cubism. Delightful.
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More Felled Trees on Woldgate 2008
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| Yosemite I, October 16th, 2011, iPad |
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| Woldgate, 6-7 February, 2013 |
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| A bigger Matelot Kevin Druez 2, 2009 |
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| Self-Portrait with Red Braces, 2003 |
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