EAN: 9780500292341

HOCKNEYS PORTRAITS AND PEOPLE - MARCO LIVINGSTO...

David Hockney's continuing belief in the importance of the portrait and his virtuoso skill in
creating a sense of close communication between artist  sitter and viewer has resulted in some
of the best-loved works of the postwar era. From the 1950s on  Hockney's most persistent
subject matter  in paintings  drawings  collages and photoworks  has been of people usually
very close to him  as well as of himself. These works are narratives of autobiographical
relationships: they reflect the intimate and often intense stories of this artist's life. They
also explore different formal ways of representing the passage of time and at the same time the
unavoidable but marvellous stillness of portraits. The works include fascinating sequences as
he paints his mother or Henry Geldzahler or Celia Birtwell on and off for decades  the special
qualities attached to depictions of lovers  and the range of celebrities  writers and artists -
Billy Wilder  Armistead Maupin  W.H. Auden  Henry Moore  Christopher Isherwood - who have been
part of a very full life. The text by a distinguished European critic and curator reinforces
the point that this hugely popular English-born artist  who made America his second home  has
become a figure of worldwide appeal.

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