David Hockney.KUNST- UND UND University of North Dakota UND University of Notre Dame UND University of Natal-Durban (South Africa) UND Urgency of Need Designator UND Union Nationale et Démocratique AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE DER BRD (Blue-Ray Disc) See Blu-ray. Taken singly, some of David Hockney's best-known paintings are physically unrewarding, but their imagery remains as plangent plan·gent adj. 1. Loud and resounding: plangent bells. 2. Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive: "From a doorway came the plangent sounds of a guitar" as a golden oldie. This Northerner's take on Frenchified taste (he is the Paul Helleu of '70s Euro-chic cafe society) and California lifestyle mixes shrewd-eyed innocence with mischievous sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. . Some of the visual experiments of recent years have been blind alleys, and the straightforward paintings of "things we have loved"--dogs, Mum, flowers, etc.--are at best charmingly banal. But if the curators of this 100-piece overview land the right works, we could be surprised by the consistency of Hockney's visual acrobatics. June 1-Sept. 23; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, Oct. 12, 2001-Jan. 29, 2002. |
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