David Hockney – and what artists did not see

michaliszissiou

Try to watch these eight poor quality videos (unfortunately)
You may find them interesting though.

pilou

michaliszissiou

Of course Pilou. Thanks.
What he's proposing on this video is a bit heretic. Though in the end... lol watch the videos.
These ideas are funny and this all matters. To have fun, this is the most important. A great start for creating art. I can't think any better way.

boofredlay

Very interesting and his explanations make sense. Unfortunately video 5 of 8 is not available in the US but all the others were (odd).
Thanks for posting this.

Chris Fullmer

I'll have to watch the videos when I get a chance, but Hockney's built frames have been very insipirational to me in my landscape architecture and design visualization work. I've made quite a few built frames myself for fun and each one has taught me something different about space, cameras, time, people and art.

His paintings have never really done anything more me though

michaliszissiou

@Boofredlay
Video #5 isn't available in greece as well.
@ Chris Fullmer
I know what you mean.

Trogluddite

Very interesting.
I always found it hard hard to believe that so many artists of similar historical periods would all have 'savant' type abilities enabling such accuracy. Also, some of the painters mentioned were very prolific, and many of their paintings show little evidence of having to use 'CTRL-Z' - pointing to the use of technical aids rather than a process of gradual 'refinement'.

Funny, when I was attending 'Art' evening classes, I was told that my work displayed too much of my engineering drawing training - so it's nice to see some acknowledgment of the 'old masters' debt to technology, to balance the usual emphasis on art's conceptual dimension.

Also, lovely to see that despite his long stay in California, Mr.Hockney has still kept much of his Bradford accent - made me feel right at home when watching the videos!