Gitar mai launin shudi

Gitar Blue wani shiri ne na zane-zane ashirin da aka yi da aquatint na David Hockney, wanda aka zana a tsakanin 1976–77 kuma aka buga a 1977 a London da New York ta Petersburg Press.

Babban labarin da ke cikin fayil ɗin ya ambaci wahayi biyu na Hockney:

 Mahalli 
A shekarar 1976, Henry Geldzahler ya gabatar da Hockney ga waƙar Wallace Stevens ta shekarar 1937, The Man with the Blue Guitar, wadda ta yi amfani da zanen Picasso na lokacin shuɗi The Old Guitarist (1903–04) a matsayin babban jigonta. Hockney ya samar da zane-zane da dama don mayar da martani ga waƙar, wanda ke nuna matsalar rawar da tunani ke takawa wajen fassara gaskiya, kuma ya samar da jerin zane-zane masu launi ta amfani da hanyar da Aldo Crommelynck ya ƙirƙira wa Picasso don yin zane-zane masu launi. Hockney ya ce zane-zanensa "kamar waƙar, suna game da canje-canje a cikin fasaha da kuma alaƙar da ke tsakanin gaskiya da tunani, don haka waɗannan hotuna ne a cikin hotuna da salon wakilci daban-daban da aka haɗa su kuma aka nuna su kuma aka narkar da su a cikin firam ɗaya. Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) ya fara rubuta waƙa a shekarunsa na 40, kuma, duk da cewa bai taɓa zama shahararren mawaki ba, ana ɗaukarsa ɗaya daga cikin mawakan Arewacin Amurka mafi tasiri na ƙarni na 20."[1]

( Bayanin mai zane kan rigar ƙura ta kundin da ke tare da shi wanda ke nuna fitowar suite na zane-zanen The Blue Guitar ). 

 Tsarin lokaci 

 1973 

 Mutuwar Picasso 
Pablo Picasso ya mutu a Mougins, Faransa a ranar 8 ga Afrilu, 1973, yana da shekaru 91.

 Hockney a Paris: Aikin Hajji 
Hockney ya koma birnin Paris a lokacin kaka na shekarar 1973, inda Picasso ya rayu tsawon rayuwarsa.

 Crommelynck 
Hockney ya yi abokantaka da Picasso's Master printer, Aldo Crommelynck a ɗakin studio, Atelier Crommelynck.

 1976 

 Lokacin bazara na 1976 
Abokin Hockney na lokacin bazara, Henry Geldzahler, mai kula da Hockney, ya gabatar da waƙar mawaƙin zamani Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, a lokacin bazara na 1976, yayin da suke hutu tare a Fire Island, NY, tare da marubuci Christopher Isherwood.

 1999 
De Picasso a Bacon: arte contemporáneo en las colecciones del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. (1999). 

 Zane-zane masu alaƙa 

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