Homeland
Subtitle: David Hockney and the Yorkshire landscape
By: James Cahill; Michael Lovell Pank; Marina Vaizey
Series: CV/Visual Arts Research Series -- 104; Cv/visual arts research -- 104.
Publisher: CV Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781908419262
Subjects: Exhibitions; English Landscape painting; In art
Other titles: David Hockney and the Yorkshire landscape
Description: Cv/VAR 104 reviews 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture', exhibited at The Royal Academy January to April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The project developed with time-framed films, i-pad works, drawings, sketchbooks, oils and watercolours. recording particular motifs and places in the changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in compositions up to 32' wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an intense experience of the landscape. The monograph reviews the exhibition and recent books and catalogues on the artist.