David Hockney looks pleased to see the photographer who has come to take his portrait for this paper. He is clearly tired of talking about swimming pools and naked boys in showers, the subjects of paintings he stopped making 25 years ago, and the arrival of a man with a camera is the ...
Christie’s sale of David Hockney’s iconic 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), set for sale this week in New York, will be sold without a reserve. “By removing the reserve we have also removed any perceived barrier to entry and opened up bidding...
LONDON.-Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving home for the Royal College of Art in London his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalised,...
“Obviously Bob’s an extraordinarily selfish person, but he has to be to be the kind of artist he is. He can be generous in all the nominal ways, but ultimately the kind of focus he’s capable of is selfish. I use the wordselfishin the best sense--Irwin’s selfishness is similar ...
Jesus: An Unfinished Portrait The article offers information on the unfinished portrait of New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Mitch Landrieu in the 1800s. Topics covered include the establish... C Norden 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 Unfinished portrait of the artist Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and...
Art+Design, Purchase College, 45 minutes outside Manhattan. Michael Torlen, Professor Emeritus at the School, wrote in support of Mark’s receiving the Dean’s Senior Recognition award when he graduated: “Mark Nilsson is an exceptional young artist; intelligent, tough minded, ambitious, and ...
A painting of the pop star Harry Styles created by English artist David Hockney will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Hockney, 86, paintedthe As It Was singer, 29, in his art studio in Normandy, France. The painting shows him wearing an orange and ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded by visionary patron and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), is home to one of the finest collections of American art in the country. Frames of Reference features eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary cultur...
‘instant realisation’ that she wanted to be an artist after viewing a David Hockney retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery. Entirely self-taught, she moved to Berlin in 2008 and began selling her pictures at a local flea market and set up an online fashion brand, designing merchandise...
often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models...