Focus on: David Hockney
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In London
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David Hockney sold his first painting for £10 – one of his recent works sold for $ 8 million.
This one-day course provides an overview of Hockney’s long and successful career. We will study his artistic development from the art student at the R.A. who refused to write a dissertation, through his contribution to the Pop Art Movement, portraiture, photography, landscape and more recently, iPad painting.
For Hockney, drawing is the key to all art; “Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look”. We will explore key influences and find out why he was an enormous admirer of Picasso and Matisse. As a writer, Hockney has questioned how artists of the Renaissance worked. He has presented a fascinating but controversial theory about their use of mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro, challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established.
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• Discuss the development of Hockney’s artistic style giving at least 3 examples of his work in different media
• Identify 3 or more of Hockney’s most significant paintings
• List 3 reasons why David Hockney has been voted ‘Most Influential Artist ‘by other artists
• Discuss the work of at least 2 other artists with whom his work may be linked stylistically.
You might wish to bring a notebook. You might wish to buy some of the books on any reading list given out in class.
You will be taught with slide presentations and group discussions.
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- Art
- Painting
- Teaching
Course programme
• A chronological survey of David Hockney’s life and career
• The development of his style, the variety of his choice of subject matter and media
• We will consider some of Hockney’s more challenging and controversial statements about art.
• We will explore his work as a writer and designer of stage sets and costume
• We will explore his 'Secret Knowledge'; his investigations of the techniques of artists of the Renaissance.
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Focus on: David Hockney