Whist still at school doing my A levels I remember looking at various artist for inspiration with my final Art exam. It was then that I first discovered David Hockney's portraits of Christopher Isherwood and his lover. Bold, prismatic, supernally pop, apologetically homoerotic and also unique in their recherche portrayal of masculine beauty they provided all the ping! a girl like me required. As a result I convinced my then boyfriend to pose in the nude for a portrait which I later gave to one of my teachers. But I digress. The reason I relayed the above is because David Hockney - once the high panjandrum of British Pop Art - has now taken up painting Yorkshire pastorals. His latest one, Bigger Trees near Warter, which he has kindly donated to Tate Britain will go on display sometime next year. I have no doubt the work in question will dazzle critics and public alike but personally I'm not convinced. Don't get me wrong the work is nice enough but 'nice' is not a word I would have used for Hockney in the past. I feel a little disappointed with his choice of subject matter but I guess he couldn't go on producing collections called 'Fuck' forever. Still, he didn't have to turn his brush to painting landscapes either.
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A bit sad, really - especially somehow, seeing him stand in front of it.
08/04/08 @ 22:02
Hockney?! Pah! Utter bilge. For true art look no further than this utter utter (utter) masterpiece:
http://www.fourblankwalls.co.uk/products/images/chinese-girlrobin.jpg
Nice essential albums list btw. No 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' though? I'd give it the edge over 'The Madcap Laughs' as being the definitive 'Syd' album.
 | 10loves10 [Member] 09/04/08 @ 18:35 |
For even truer art look no further than below:
 | neonmeatdreams [Member] 10/04/08 @ 13:18 |
Who is this Artist. I remember seeing them on 'Imagine' with Alan Yentob and they did a piece with him in it but i totally forgot their name!
| 10loves10 [Member] 10/04/08 @ 16:16 |
Boo Ritson. Some of her pieces are kind of interesting. I like one called 'Hitman' oh and also one called 'Cheeseburger' and 'Doughnut'.
| neonmeatdreams [Member] 09/04/08 @ 12:38 |
I was pondering the other day why The Rolling Stones, arguably one of the best bands in the world, hadn't penned a decent song for over twenty years.
Talent doesn't go away so is it that they are just out of touch with the times? Or are they just not relevant to music anymore?
The same could be said of Hockney perhaps?
Artists, like Rock stars should die young and troubled anyway in my opinion, as the old saying goes, it's better to burn out than to fade away.
| 10loves10 [Member] 09/04/08 @ 18:12 |
Absolutely. People like Hockney, Jagger, McCartney, Debbie Harry etc should be dead already or if not dead then growing old gracefully somewhere out of public view instead of bastardizing their own legacies. The cunts.
09/04/08 @ 22:09
The Strolling Bones should've done the decent thing and died in a plane crash round about 1972. Brian Jones had the right idea. Even though he was murdered by Paddy Considine (or something like that anyroad).
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