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David Hockney "Felled Trees on Woldgate" 2008 Oil on 2 canvases (60 x 48" each) 60 x 96" overall © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
David Hockney, Los Angeles, 9th March 2016 © David Hockney Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima
David Hockney "Barry Humphries, 26th, 27th, 28th March 2015" Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36" © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
David Hockney Painting "Winter Timber" in Bridlington, July 2009 © David Hockney Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima
Exhibition on Screen
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts: A Bigger Picture
Directed by Phil Grabsky
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Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris, and beyond attracting millions of visitors worldwide. This film allows up-close access to this 21st-century master and his two recent blockbuster exhibitions held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with Hockney the film offers rare insights into the man behind such iconic works as A Bigger Splash and A Closer Grand Canyon. In conversation with Tim Marlow (Artistic Director at the Royal Academy of Arts), Hockney reveals anecdotes from across his artistic and personal life from his first trip abroad to Egypt in 1963, to the effects of the death of his close friend Jonathan Silver in 1997, right up to today.
For A Bigger Picture, Hockney returned to his native Yorkshire. This return to home was cathartic for Hockney and saw him capture the changing landscape through the seasons, using new techniques, such as iPad drawings and video. Four years later for 82 Portraits and One Still Life, Hockney also adopted a new mode of working, inviting sitters to his studio with a strict deadline of three days for each portrait. The eighty-two finished paintings are themselves one complete work.
The film also provides a rare chance to explore two of Hockney’s landmark exhibitions from his late career, guided by the exhibitions’ curatorial team and the artist himself. A Royal Academician since 1991, Hockney has a close relationship with the institution, creating both exhibitions specifically for the gallery spaces and thus making them entirely unique shows. 2017, U.K., DCP, 85 minutes. Recommended for 13+