Homeland: David Hockney and the Yorkshire Landscape
Cv/VAR 104 reviews 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture', exhibited at the Royal Academy from January to April 2012. The project of creat-ing monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Works were devel-oped with time-framed films, photographs and i-pad studies, drawings, sketchbooks, oils and watercolours. recording particular motifs and places in the changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in compositions up to 30' wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an intense and personal experience of the landscape. The monograph includes reviews of the exhibition by James Cahill and Michael Lovell-Pank, and recent books on the artist by Marco Living-stone, Martin Gayford and Christopher Simon Sykes, reviewed by Marina Vaizey.
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