Hockney's Trees
Here’s my friend John, in front of David Hockney’s Bigger Trees Near Warter (2007) at the Tate Britain Gallery in London. The picture measures an extraordinary 12m x 5m (40ft x 16ft), and comprises 50 individual canvases. I thought I’d add a Polaroid effect to this image, in homage to Hockney’s own experiments with collage photography in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.
David Hockney’s original plan was to paint Bigger Trees throughout the four seasons – but when he returned to begin work on the second painting, he found that the copse of sycamores and beeches in east Yorkshire had been felled. “A massacre,” he declared… and who could disagree?
The unembellished Hockney is here.
Hockney's Trees
Here’s my friend John, in front of David Hockney’s Bigger Trees Near Warter (2007) at the Tate Britain Gallery in London. The picture measures an extraordinary 12m x 5m (40ft x 16ft), and comprises 50 individual canvases. I thought I’d add a Polaroid effect to this image, in homage to Hockney’s own experiments with collage photography in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.
David Hockney’s original plan was to paint Bigger Trees throughout the four seasons – but when he returned to begin work on the second painting, he found that the copse of sycamores and beeches in east Yorkshire had been felled. “A massacre,” he declared… and who could disagree?
The unembellished Hockney is here.