Livingstone, Marco; Drabble, Margaret; Barringer, Tim; Salomon, Xavier; Comer, Stuart; Gayford, Martin So that is an advance on the past of a sort. And for such a restless innovator, so mindful of art history in everything he makes, this is surely a necessity. To take up a genre beloved of old and modern masters, Sunday painters and about half the entrants to the Royal Academy show every summer is to join a tradition. The question is what to make of it in personal and aesthetic terms, how to renew it.

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture - IMDb David Hockney: A Bigger Picture - IMDb

They want to enjoy the artist’s products – as one might enjoy the milk of a cow – but they can’t put up with the inconvenience, the mud and the flies.” The cover art of the Mr. Oizo album Stade 2, by the artist So Me, is a deconstructed reinterpretation of Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures). [21] In 2011 there was a wonderful spring, and I had planned to record it,” he explains. “We got marvellous snow, the spring was early and we were ready for everything. I had begun drawing the changing scene on the iPad in the New Year, then, when I’d printed out five or six iPad drawings on a big scale, I began to realise, my God, you could do the whole room with this method. Square Quarto hardcover, green cloth boards, green tooled lettering to spine, decorative tooling to front board, illus prelims, 301pp., NEAR FINE, in illus d/w, NEAR FINE. David insisted I filmed single-handedly, so there’s an intimacy and clumsiness to these recordings, something I echo in my commentaries to the films.A steady supply of Valium would have been useful. I had done one other evolving film project called “ Portrait’ with my brilliant editor and collaborator Chris Swayne, about the making of an official portrait by Tom Phillips for The National Portrait Gallery of its outgoing Director Charles Saumarez-Smith. But at only 50 hours of footage and essentially describing a series of portrait sittings over 9 months, it was altogether a more easily manageable proposition. For a start a linear narrative was a given. The 120-plus hours of video for ‘A Bigger Picture’ were too much to hold in one’s head, and additionally there were so many different possible stories and approaches to that material. We were drowning in all the films it could be.

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) - Wikipedia Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) - Wikipedia

paintings made and shown on iPads were displayed showing the transition from winter to summer on Woldgate in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Using the app Brushes the artist replaced the traditional sketchbook with the digital medium. Beitrage von Tim Barringer, Edith Devaney, Margaret Drabble, Marco Livingstone, Martin Gayford, Xavier F. Salomon; I think van Gogh was one of the great, great draughtsmen. I love the little sketches in his letters, which seem like drawings of drawings. They are condensed versions of the big pictures he was painting at the time, so that Theo and the other people he was writing to could understand what he was doing. .. Those early drawings of peasants are incredibly good, technically. You really feel volume, get a sense of the body and the texture of the fabric of the clothes they are wearing – and yet they transcend that, because the empathy is so strong. But technically they are as good as any drawing you’ll ever see. Rembrandt could do that too. You feel whether the clothes his figures are wearing are ragged or refined cloth, even if he has just used six lines. With a truly great draughtsman, there is no formula. Each image is something new. It is in Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso and van Gogh. You never get a repeat of a face in Rembrandt or van Gogh; there’s always something of the individual character. 11Though even here, among the skeletons of dead trees, the high-pitched purple and orange gives a kind of luminosity that just clears those blues away.