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Description of the artwork «Pearblossom highway, April »

When David Hockney had asked about the painting or the photograph, he found it difficult to give a precise answer. The artist said: "My friends-photographers say that it is a picture, and I think that this photo".

Pearblossom highway de david hockney biography During the same year, he made his very first sale. There is a gaze in a gaze, and a painting in a painting. By combining photographs into a cohesive artwork, he invites us to reconsider the limitations we often place on artistic expression and challenges us to embrace hybrid forms. The paintings was sold for a mindboggling 90 million dollars.

The monumental canvas "Pearblossom highway, April " really hard to call fotoraboty in the usual sense – too much of it is artistry. And this, paradoxically, is movies. Hockney told that this work was conceived as a kind of illustration for one of the episodes of the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov in which Humbert Humbert goes in search of his beloved American southwest.

During the work on the collage Hockney made several thousand images, and only about of them were later assembled into a coherent whole, becoming a picture. In total the whole process took nine days.

Pearblossom highway de david hockney biography for kids By Julien Delagrange. He opens up on his homosexuality, starts to play with style, perspective, and his source material. The artist takes on a retrospective viewing point towards his oeuvre, his career and himself. One of the most iconic artworks during this period is his largest painting ever, and probably, the largest en plein air painting ever made: Bigger Trees near Warter.

The artist said that the biggest difficulty arose with the sky, which every day and at different times of day change color and texture, and it was supposed to take about a third of the space. In this case, the maximum Hockney have shown their artistic abilities, literally painting the sky is clear and bright shade of blue from images taken at different times.

For the first time, was presented to the public in at the County Museum of art Los Angeles.

And since that day her started hunting the Getty Museum – or rather, curator of photographs Weston Ne. Hockney didn't want to sell "Highway Pearblossom", and Nave managed to convince an artist in , telling him about the new technical possibilities of the Museum, allowed between exposures to keep the collage in a cool storage to preserve color.

The amount for which the Museum purchased the painting, is never disclosed, however, the NEF said it was worth, of course, "less than the Hockney painting of the same size, but still cost dearly".

Author: Eugene Sidelnikov