David Hockney cytaty

David Hockney – angielski malarz, rysownik, grafik, fotograf oraz scenograf, którego prace cechuje oszczędność techniki, zainteresowanie problemami światła i zaczerpnięty z pop-artu i fotografii realizm w ukazywaniu zwyczajnych, prozaicznych tematów. W 2012 roku został uhonorowany przez królową Elżbietę II Order of Merit.

Hockney studiował w Bradford College of Art i Royal College w Londynie , gdzie uzyskał złoty medal w konkursie dyplomów. W 1961 odwiedził Stany Zjednoczone, dokąd powrócił w 1964 na trzy lata i gdzie wykładał na uniwersytetach stanowych lowa, Kolorado i Kalifornii, a następnie przebywał na zmianę w USA i Anglii, by w końcu zamieszkać w 1978 roku w Los Angeles. Intensywnie, rażące światło, charakterystyczne dla tego miasta, i "nowoczesna estetyka kalifornijska" wywarły duży wpływ na jego malarstwo.

W pracach Hockneya przeważa tematyka autobiograficzna; najwięcej jest portretów, autoportretów i pogodnych scen kameralnych, których bohaterami są jego przyjaciele i znajome wnętrza . Charakterystyczna dla nich swobodna elegancja i niezmącona świetlistość dominują także w martwych naturach Hockneya. Poszukiwana w zakresie fotografii w latach 80. zaowocowały Autostradą Pearblossom 11-18 kwietnia 1986 i in. fotokolażami. Hockney wydał kilka cykli graficznych w formie albumów, jak np. ilustracje do Six Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm i The Blue Guitar . Osiągnął także wysoką pozycję międzynarodową jako scenograf operowy i baletowy. Wydał wiele książek, m.in. Hockney by Hockney , Travels With Pen, Pencil and Ink , Paper Pools , David Hockney Photographs , China Diary oraz Hockney Paints the Stages .

Jest orientacji homoseksualnej. W roku 1966 poznał kalifornijskiego fotografa Petera Schlesingera, wówczas studenta sztuki, który został jego kochankiem oraz ulubionym modelem.

✵ 9. Lipiec 1937
David Hockney: 28   Cytatów 0   Polubień

David Hockney cytaty

„To bardzo dobra rada wierzyć tylko w to, co artysta robi, a nie to, co mówi o swojej pracy.”

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
Źródło: Paul Melia, David Hockney http://books.google.pl/books?id=D8DnAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Manchester University Press ND, 1995, s. 44.

David Hockney: Cytaty po angielsku

“I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!"”

Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney," The Telegraph, (15 November 2001)
2000s
Kontekst: He [Hockney's father] hardly ever left Bradford. He was a member of CND and a socialist with a rather romantic and naive idea of what Soviet Russia was like, all cornfields and ballet. He would have gone mad for email because he was always sending letters to world leaders — Eisenhower, Mao, Stalin — telling them what was what. I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!"

“He was a member of CND and a socialist with a rather romantic and naive idea of what Soviet Russia was like, all cornfields and ballet.”

Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney," The Telegraph, (15 November 2001)
2000s
Kontekst: He [Hockney's father] hardly ever left Bradford. He was a member of CND and a socialist with a rather romantic and naive idea of what Soviet Russia was like, all cornfields and ballet. He would have gone mad for email because he was always sending letters to world leaders — Eisenhower, Mao, Stalin — telling them what was what. I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!"

“The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.”

From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981) , p. 112
1980s
Kontekst: When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary. So Picasso discovered that, as it were, and I'm sure that for him that was probably almost as exciting as discovering Cubism, rediscovering conventions of ordinary appearance, one-point perspective or something. The purists think you're going backwards, but I know you'd go forward. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. The Renaissance is not the same as ancient Greece; the Gothic revival is not the same as Gothic. It might look like that at first, but you can tell it's not. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

“When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary.”

From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981) , p. 112
1980s
Kontekst: When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary. So Picasso discovered that, as it were, and I'm sure that for him that was probably almost as exciting as discovering Cubism, rediscovering conventions of ordinary appearance, one-point perspective or something. The purists think you're going backwards, but I know you'd go forward. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. The Renaissance is not the same as ancient Greece; the Gothic revival is not the same as Gothic. It might look like that at first, but you can tell it's not. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

“Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.”

From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981) , p. 112
1980s
Kontekst: When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary. So Picasso discovered that, as it were, and I'm sure that for him that was probably almost as exciting as discovering Cubism, rediscovering conventions of ordinary appearance, one-point perspective or something. The purists think you're going backwards, but I know you'd go forward. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. The Renaissance is not the same as ancient Greece; the Gothic revival is not the same as Gothic. It might look like that at first, but you can tell it's not. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

“Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.”

Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)
2000s

“In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.”

Interview with Martin Gayford, "Hockney and the secrets of the Old Masters" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/09/22/bagay22.xml The Telegraph(22 September 2001)
2000s

“I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, "Let's have a look in the mirror." When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?”

Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/17/bahock17.xml The Telegraph (15 November 2001)
2000s

“What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.”

From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207
1980s

“All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”

Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration" http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/02/26/david_hockney_keeps_seeking_new_avenues_of_exploration/ Boston Globe (26 February 2006)
2000s

“In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?"”

"Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy," interview with John Mortimer, In Character (1983), p. 97
1980s

“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”

Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration," Boston Globe (26 February 2006)
2000s

“How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.”

Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1806962,00.html The Sunday Times (London)
2000s

“I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.”

Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places" http://www.forestonline.org/output/Page264.asp FOREST Online (28 July 2004)
2000s

“Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.”

Interview with Paul Joyce, New York, November 1985, quoted in Hockney on Photography, ed. Wendy Brown (1988)
1980s

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