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Felicity House with her pastel artwork A really nice post Giants by Ilaria Rosselli del Turco (Ilaria Rosselli del Turco - News) - about seeing three exhibitions by Antonio Lopez Garcia, David Hockney and Lucian Freud and what she made of them I smiled...
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However, the author of The Power of Silence has done precisely that.Professor Colum Kenny's 300-page book, with its David Hockney Fred and Marcia Weisman artwork above the book's subtitle "Silent communication in Daily Life", offers its reader a rich,...
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Bacon acknowledged Picasso very readily, but whatever he absorbed feels quite inconsequential to the exuberant agony and grandeur of his art. If Bacon looks diminished, imagine the effect on everyone else. Graham Sutherland comes over as a second-rate...
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There were lithographs and etchings, photocopies and photographic collages but no paintings. Not that it made any difference to the bidders who crammed into the sale room in the hope of walking away with a work by David Hockney. There was standing room...
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Suzy Boyt, and Isobel, the first daughter she had with Freud; Bacon’s lover, George Dyer; Bernadine Coverley, the mother of Bella and Esther Freud; and the painter Celia Paul, a regular subject. The artist’s mother has consistently been identified as...
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He painted landscapes all over the world before returning to paint his native Yorkshire in the late 1990s. His show at the Royal Academy, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, is regarded as the most extensive exhibition of his works to appear in Britain. ...
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Warhol and Archie (or Amos). David Hockney with his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie. Pablo Picasso and his dog Lump. Georgia O’Keeffe and her Chow. René and Georgette Magritte with their dog. Jackson Pollock with Gyp and Ahab. After all, dogs have...
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Richardson has recently been employed by the New York dealer Larry Gagosian and has been working on a series of late-Picasso exhibitions. However, this London visit allows him to catch up with old friends. He is due to have a private tour of David...
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Win A Luxury Weekend In London - Jessops offer you the chance to win a luxury weekend in London with tickets to David Hockney exhibition. Jessops has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to run a competition where there's a luxury weekend away in...
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February 2012 Last updated at 04:48 ET Rake's Progress tells the story of Hockney's experience whilst in America in 1961 More than 100 pieces of work by artist David Hockney are to be auctioned in London later. Auctioneer Christie's is to sell 147...
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Boxes of champagne and other parcels would arrive, also from the US, sometimes directly from Fortnum and Masons. These were all sent from David Hockney to his relatives in the town. My mother, an amateur painter, would remark to me how strange it was...
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I heard you were fully booked." "Yes we certainly do. Don't look so surprised, of course we sell tickets on the door. But are you sure you want to come in? We're closing at six o'clock tonight so you've only got an hour, and it is a big exhibition. ...
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Grant takes precedence on this honor roll, because he was the first artist to "get" what Picasso's art was about. In his own work, Grant incorporated Picasso's African-inspired figures and his use of decorative patterning, and later he took up the...
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Picasso was born in 1881 when Victoria had two more decades on the throne ahead of her, British forces were withdrawn from Afghanistan, Gilbert and Sullivan presented Patience, and Lord Leighton was president of the Royal Academy. He died in 1973, all but
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John Braithwaite, who has died aged 68, was the last maker of astronomical telescopes in Scotland, but there was a great deal more to him than that. He was also an adviser to David Hockney, a former parliamentary candidate, a musician, an expert on...
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It features works by Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney, alongside 60-plus paintings, drawings and collages by the Spanish master himself. The show reveals how Picasso, and in...
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3.01pm: Nancy: Just before we 'break-out' again (sounds like an acne attack), some follow up on today's announcement of the £750,000 British Council/ACE fund to enable artists to travel abroad for collaboration, knowledge sharing and performance. In the...
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Francis Bacon and Hockney himself. In 1988, the Tate staged an exhibition of late Picasso, and many people began to talk about this work as not an unfortunate decline but one of the artist’s greatest periods. Hockney looked at it long and hard. “I sat...
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Lucian Freud: Painted Life also includes frank testimony from those who knew and loved this extraordinary personality. Members of his large family (he had at least fourteen children by a number of different women), close friends including David Hockney...
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Picasso's paintings will be shown alongside works by British artists in a new exhibition opening this week. Picasso and Modern British Art explores the Spanish artist's influence on British greats, from Henry Moore to David Hockney. The Tate Britain...
About David Hockney
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David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth... Full Article
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 16: British artist David Hockney checks his mobile phone as he poses in front of his painting entitled 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire 2011 (twenty-eleven)' at the opening of his exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture in the Royal...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 16: British artist David Hockney poses in front of his painting entitled 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty-eleven)' at the opening of his exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture in the Royal Academy of Arts on January...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 16: British artist David Hockney takes a picture of press photographers with his mobile phone as he poses in front of his painting entitled 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty-eleven)' at the opening of his exhibition David...
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Painter David Hockney walks past a painting during an interview on Saturday for the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, at the Royal Academy in London, which was broadcast on January 15, 2012.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 13: A piece of work entitled 'Nude Woman in a Red Armchair' by Pablo Picasso is displayed at an exhibition of Picasso and Modern British Art at the Tate Britain on February 13, 2012 in London, England. As well as pieces by Picasso, the exhibition showcases...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 13: A photographer take a picture of a piece of work entitled 'The Three Dancers' by Pablo Picasso during a press preview at an exhibition of Picasso and Modern British Art at the Tate Britain on February 13, 2012 in London, England. As well as pieces by...
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British artist David Hockney is photographed by members of the press as he stands before one of his paintings of the East Yorkshire landscape at The Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly, London, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, ahead of his exhibition called 'A Bigger Picture'.
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British artist David Hockney stands before one of his paintings of the East Yorkshire landscape at The Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly, London, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, ahead of his exhibition called 'A Bigger Picture'.
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A combo of file pictures created on January 3, 2011 shows British artist David Hockney (L) attending a photocall at the Tate Britain gallery in central London on June 11, 2007 and British artist Damien Hirst (R) posing for photographs during a photocall at Sotheby's art gallery and...
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Painter David Hockney poses during a photo-call to promote the announcement of an exhibition of his landscape work at the Royal Academy of Arts in central London, September 7, 2011. The new exhibition titled "A Bigger Picture" will open on January 21, 2012.
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British artist David Hockney poses for photographers with a cigarette during the press view of his forthcoming exhibition entitled 'David Hockney: A Bigger Picture' at the Royal Academy of Arts in central London, on September 7, 2011. The exhitibition will run from January 21 to April...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 07: Artist David Hockney poses for photographs at The Royal Academy of Arts on September 7, 2011 in London, England. Hockney is promoting an exhibition of his landscape paintings 'David Hockney: A Bigger Picture' which runs from January 21 to April 9, 2012.
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British artist David Hockney poses for photographers during a press launch for an upcoming exhibition, entitled 'David Hockney: A Bigger Picture' by the Royal Academy of Arts, in central London, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. The exhibition, which showcases landscape pieces by David Hockney...
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British artist David Hockney poses for the photographers during a press launch for an upcoming exhibition, entitled 'David Hockney: A Bigger Picture' by the Royal Academy of Arts, in central London, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. The exhibition that showcases landscape works by David...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: A gallery assistant adjusts a print of a David Hockney artwork entitled 'Soft Celia' estimated to fetch 5,000 GBP in Bonhams auction house on November 25, 2011 in London, England. The auction of prints of works ranging from old masters to contemporary...
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Visitors look at "With Conversation" by David Hockney during a contemporary arts exhibition in Doha October 24, 2011. The painting is estimated to fetch between $1.4 million and $1.8 million when it is auctioned off in New York on November 6.
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A man views "Standard Station" by Ed Ruscha and "A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney at the "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980" exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California October 4, 2011. Ten years in the making, "PST" was initiated by the Los Angeles-based Getty...
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A Bonham's employee poses with three artworks entitled 'Winter Road near Kilham' (L), 'Cat', an earthenware ceramic cat (C) and 'Parade Screenprint for the Metropolitan Opera New York' (R), by British artist David Hockney at Bonham's auction house in central London, on April 18, 2011. ...
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A Bonham's employee sits with and artwork entitled 'Cat', an earthenware ceramic cat, by British artist David Hockney at Bonham's auction house in central London, on April 18, 2011. The work of art is expected to fetch between GBP 5,000-7,000 (dollars 8,160-11,400 or euros 5,650-7,900)...
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A Bonham's employee looks at a work of art entitled 'An Image of Celia Lithograph' by British artist David Hockney at Bonham's auction house in central London, on April 18, 2011. The artwork is expected to fetch between GBP 60,000-80,000 (dollars 98,000-130,600 or euros 68,00-90,500)...
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A Bonham's employee holds an artwork entitled 'Cat', in front of a work of art entitled 'An Image of Celia Lithograph' both by British artist David Hockney at Bonham's auction house in central London, on April 18, 2011.'Cat' is expected to fetch between GBP 5,000-7,000 (dollars 8,160-11,400...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 18: An employee looks at David Hockney's earthenware ceramic cat from 1955 in front of an early photograph of the artist at Bonhams auctioneers on April 18, 2011 in London, England. Works spanning five decades of David Hockneys creative output are on show at...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 18: A close up photograph details the frame of 'An Image of Celia' by David Hockney at Bonhams auctioneers on April 18, 2011 in London, England. Works spanning five decades of David Hockneys creative output are on show at Bonhams prior to a sale dedicated to his...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 18: A visitor to Bonhams auctioneers looks at the lithograph, 'An Image of Celia' by David Hockney on April 18, 2011 in London, England. Works spanning five decades of David Hockneys creative output are on show at Bonhams prior to a sale dedicated to his work on...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 18: Two early black and white photographs of artist David Hockney frame his screenprint 'Parade (Baggott 94)' at Bonhams auctioneers on April 18, 2011 in London, England. Works spanning five decades of David Hockneys creative output are on show at Bonhams prior...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 16: British artist David Hockney checks his mobile phone as he poses in front of his painting entitled 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire 2011 (twenty-eleven)' at the opening of his exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture in the Royal...
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