{"id":1425,"date":"2021-05-10T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/david-hockney-on-joy-longing-and-spring-light-im-teaching-the-french-how-to-paint-normandy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:27:48","slug":"david-hockney-on-joy-longing-and-spring-light-im-teaching-the-french-how-to-paint-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/david-hockney-on-joy-longing-and-spring-light-im-teaching-the-french-how-to-paint-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: \u2018I\u2019m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever \u2013 offering hope to an injured world <\/p>\n

\u2018I think it looks terrific,\u201d says David Hockney. \u201cIt\u2019s all on one theme, isn\u2019t it? And there\u2019s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.\u201d The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with it \u2013 and rightly so, for it is hypnotic and ravishing. But while I am getting a sneak preview in person, Hockney is here only virtually, his face appearing on two screens, one a giant TV, the other a small laptop.<\/p>\n

He is at home, at what he calls his \u201cseven dwarves house\u201d in Normandy, wearing a red, black and white check jacket, a checkerboard tie, a blue-green pullover and round, gold-framed glasses. His kaleidoscopic choice of clothing, challenging the very limits of the video call\u2019s bandwidth, is as vibrant and beguiling as the canvases hanging around us. Hockney has not just painted spring; he has come dressed as it.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nWhile enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever \u2013 offering hope to an injured world
\n\u2018I think it looks terrific,\u201d says David Hockney. \u201cIt\u2019s all on one theme, isn\u2019t it? And there\u2019s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.\u201d The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with it \u2013 and rightly so, for it is hypnotic and ravishing. But while I am getting a sneak preview in person, Hockney is here only virtually, his face appearing on two screens, one a giant TV, the other a small laptop.
\nHe is at home, at what he calls his \u201cseven dwarves house\u201d in Normandy, wearing a red, black and white check jacket, a checkerboard tie, a blue-green pullover and round, gold-framed glasses. His kaleidoscopic choice of clothing, challenging the very limits of the video call\u2019s bandwidth, is as vibrant and beguiling as the canvases hanging around us. Hockney has not just painted spring; he has come dressed as it. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever \u2013 offering hope to an injured world \u2018I think it looks terrific,\u201d says David Hockney. \u201cIt\u2019s all on one theme, isn\u2019t it? And there\u2019s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.\u201d The …<\/p>\n

David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: \u2018I\u2019m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}