Talk:David Hockney

message: Would I be right in thinking that David Hockeny was involved
in a series of artwroks known as the paper pools?
These were IIRC pictures constructed using colored paper pulp?
See Also : http://www.nga.gov.au/BigAmericans/Detail/Diver.htm
:Yep, that's right. Julia Rossi 12:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paper pools? 

message: Also, I am not sure if individual paintings should get entire articles. Flying Hamster 22:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends, I think, on the painting. See Guernica as opposed to The Matador. Amphytrite 04:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is not up to wiki standards, it reads like an essay written by a schoolkid and furthermore seems to be signed in such a manner

message: Can anyone find a definition for the RA mentioned after Hockney's name? The placing leads me to believe it's short for that Royal Artillery, but I can't be certain. Amphytrite 04:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's more likely to be Royal Academician, a member of the Royal Academy, also known as the Royal Academy of Arts because military service doesn't seem to be in Hockney's history. Julia Rossi 01:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! Amphytrite 02:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  He was a conscientious objector to mandatory military service in England. He spent two years between his Bradford Art School days and his Royal College art school days working in healthcare. This might have been resolved already, I dunno. Ghamming 17:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig of [[RA]]

message: Yes, I did it. It's a good project and I wanted to clean it up to save its little hide. I also removed some of the weasel-ish words and some sweeping statements though I could see it was written with love and enthusiasm which is greattttttt, so didn't wanna be too heavy handed there. You might like to expand about the Pools which was a californianising of Hockney or Hockney's song of praise to Cal - I guess it applies either way. The context is that he was freer to express his lifestyle in LA and he came from cloudy ole England. His experimentation in art history circles is considered a post-modern exercise in working across disciplines and he championed printmaking, simply by churning them out and using whatever, which is normally seen (in an elitist way) as poor cousin to painting. He's quite egalitarian really. Continue having fun, Julia Rossi 01:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki cleanup 

message: a PS - about oils being his preferred medium, I saw a documentary showing Hockney's assistant madly spraying water across a huge canvas to prevent the acrylic paint from drying out. These paintings were large and very flat in rendering. Did he switch to acrylics, and if so, when? Julia Rossi 01:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He switched to acrylic when he moved to LA in 1964, I know that much. He liked the quality and range of colors of American acrylics much better than he did English acrylic. I don't know as much about his work post-1974 or so, though I'd be happy to research it once the copyright issues are resolved. I can cite sources on the acrylic thing, too. Ghamming 17:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Acrylics were the medium used for the works of the 1960s and the Clark's double portrait, so the reference to oils was inaccurate. Philip Cross (talk) 22:24, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

text: ...but some of his most recent work DO use the older medium. Philip Cross (talk) 22:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oils? 

message: Most of this article is taken from the David Hockney biography at http://www.davidhockney.com/bio.shtml -- it is paraphrased to some extend, but very clearly plagiarized. I don't know what steps to take to mark this article as a copyvio; will someone with more knowledge on the matter help me out?
CDrecche 22:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks as though the copyright violation was added around 21 January 2007 by an anonymous editor. Reverting to versions prior to that would seem to be safe. DCB4W 02:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, nice detective work DCB :) --Cactus.man ✍ 06:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought versions prior (as in closer to the pinched original) would be more likely copy vio. Turned out that's what the article starter did before running out of time to mutate it. That's why when I tackled it, I tried to paraphrase. Since then it's looking quite different.Julia Rossi 04:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations 

message: where is the proof that the clark/percy painting is one of the most popular at the tate?  that statement is kind of out of place in an encyclopedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.117.231.144 (talk) 04:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: Can anyone find an appropriate picture of David Hockney for this article? It seems necessary, especially because of his distinctive appearance (blonde hair, thick black glasses), i.e. the Hockney look.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Graymornings (talk • contribs) 16:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of Hockney? 

message: Hockney did not provide a clear explanation of the use of mirrors. He didn't sufficiently emphasize that the mirrors that were used were concave mirrors, not flat mirrors. If you stand in front of a window and point a concave mirror at the window, the image of the objects that are outside the window will be projected onto the wall in front of you. This projection is upside down, but otherwise it is a true image of the objects. The artists duplicated this phenomenon by placing objects inside of a windowed space and projecting them onto a canvas for tracing by using a concave mirror.Lestrade (talk) 18:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to laugh at humanity. Here's a man who hands everyone an obviously true explanation of a phenomenon and many people reject it because they don't understand. People would rather have mysteries and paradoxes than clear explanations.Lestrade (talk) 22:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: It's done with (concave) mirrors

message: someone thought funny to add "this website sucks!" in the early years part. I removed it.Gigakight (talk) 04:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Looks like an erroneous category to me:  he appears to spend most, if not all, of his time in Bridlington.  I've removed it. --GuillaumeTell 22:13, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:English expatriates in the United States]] 

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thread_title:  Death of Dominic Elliot was not from a fall 

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message: Why does "David Hocking" redirect to "David Hockney"?  David Hocking and David Hockney are completely different people.98.149.97.245 (talk) 19:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: He has a Bible Teaching Ministry? He has no Wikipedia article. I guess the redirect is to help those people who can't spell or who get the two names confused. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:58, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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