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David HockneyCELIA ADJUSTING HER EYELASH1979
1979

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- Creation Year1979
- DimensionsHeight: 27 in. (68.58 cm)Width: 31.13 in. (79.08 cm)
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- Gallery LocationPortland, ME
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About David Hockney (Artist)
The art of David Hockney is always engaging in its pleasant ambiguities: It’s warm but somehow aloof; filled with light yet often dark and brooding in subject; simple, frank and mundane, but also ethereal and complex. The artist’s stature in the contemporary- art world is such that, in a 2011 survey of one thousand British painters and sculptors, he was named the most influential British artist of all time.
Hockney grew up in Bradford, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, studying at the Bradford School of Art from 1953 to ’57, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to ’ 1962. Though he was educated in art a time when abstraction dominated the field, Hockney stuck resolutely to figurative painting and drawing. His early paintings suggest a search for a style, veering from Expressionism to a grotesquerie suggestive of James Ensor. But Hockney found himself almost the moment he arrived in Los Angeles, in 1963. The move from the gray and rainy Britain to a world of bright sunshine and sparkling water brought Hockney a sense of freedom and an artistic epiphany. He would spend most of the next five years in L.A., painting luminous pictures, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), of things that made him happy: swimming pools, manicured lawns, palm trees, stucco buildings and luxuries like shower stalls. Hockney also painted people, almost always his friends. His California portraits such as Beverly Hills Housewife (1966) are considered to be his finest work. They are at once grandly scaled, intimate and poetic.
In the 1970s, Hockney moved back to Britain and spent much of his time on photography and printmaking. He returned to painting in the 1980s, and to subjects like still lifes, seascapes and portraits. Hockney has always been fascinated by the use of technology in art — he’s credited with inventing the technique of joining Polaroid photos in a collage to form a panoramic picture — and has been using the Brush app to paint on an iPad. Because he is prolific and works in a wide range of mediums, Hockney’s art is available at many price points. His consistently striking and provocative work should have a place in any comprehensive collection of contemporary art.

- By David HockneyLocated in Portland, MEHockney, David. JOE MCDONALD. Scottish Arts Council 175. Gemini DH76-767. Lithograph in two blacks, 1976. Done ...Category
1970s Portrait Prints
MaterialsABS, Lithograph
- By David HockneyLocated in Portland, MEHockney, David. YVES MARIE. S.A.C. 159. Lithograph, 1974. Edition of 75, plus 24 proofs. Printed in New York by ...Category
1970s Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- By David HockneyLocated in Portland, MEHockney, David. MAURICE PAYNE. Etching, 1971. Edition of 75 plus 16 Artist's Proofs. Published by Petersburg Pre...Category
1970s Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- By David HockneyLocated in Portland, MEHockney, David (English, born 1937). S.A.C. 188, Tokyo 178. HENRY AT TABLE. Lithograph, 1976. Edition of 96, plu...Category
1970s Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- By Will BarnetLocated in Portland, MEBarnet, Will. MARY SEWING. Szoke 32, Cole 31, JOhnson 37. Lithograph, 1936. Edition of 10. Titled and signed in ...Category
1930s Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- By Will BarnetLocated in Portland, MEBarnet, Will. JOE. Szoke 13, Cole 12, Johnson 14. Lithograph, 1935. Edition of 12. Titled and signed in pencil. ...Category
1930s Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
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