Hockney heads home.He's perhaps most recognized for his evocative images of Southern California--swimming pools, desert landscapes, and nubile nu·bile adj. 1. Ready for marriage; of a marriageable age or condition. Used of young women. 2. Sexually mature and attractive. Used of young women. young men--but gay Anglo-American artist David Hockney David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. has been painting portraits for 50 years. David Hockney: Portraits--the first retrospective of its kind in his long career--has been organized by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. , where it closed in May. It moves next to the museums that cooperated in mounting the show: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. (June 11-September 4, 2006); and the National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery can refer to:
Hockney, who has made his home in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. since the early 1960s, works with a remarkable range of style and media: drawing, painting (watercolors and oils), and his signature form, the photo collage. The 120 portraits in this comprehensive exhibit include numerous self-portraits as well as depictions of his family, friends, and lovers. Fellow gay Anglo-American and Angeleno Christopher Isherwood is represented, as are the poet W.H. Auden, fellow pop artist Andy Warhol, and painter Lucien Freud, among many others. Hockney's 1970-1971 painting Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy, on loan from London's Tate Gallery, is a highlight, having been voted one of the most popular paintings in 20th-century British art last year by listeners to BBC's Radio 4. Some of Hockney's most recent works, also included, attest to the continued breadth of his inventiveness. The show is accompanied by a handsome book, also titled David Hockney Portraits (Yale University Press, $60), featuring an essay by Edmund White called "The Lineaments of Desire." |
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