Hockney's Pictures

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Its huge international success confirms and reinforces Hockney’s position as the world’s most popular living artist. This constant exploration of how to communicate such feelings through art emerges with particular clarity in this stunning, lively volume, which charts almost fifty years of extraordinary creativity. He has produced work in almost every medium - painting, drawing, stage design, photography and printmaking - and has stretched the boundaries of all of them. His work is in the permanent collections of major museums internationally, and his book The Secret Knowledge was one of the best-selling art books of 2001. Hockney's Pictures is the first 'retrospective' to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and photography throughout his career.

Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement.The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. With over 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney’s Pictures is already a classic. Hockney’s Pictures is the first ‘retrospective’ to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, and photography, including new and published works. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.

There is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering, but I believe that my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the suffering of despair. The pieces are selected and organised by David Hockney himself, and track his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. This constant exploration of how to communicate such feelings through his work emerges with particular clarity in this stunning, lively volume, which charts almost fifty years of extraordinary creativity. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive 'retrospective' to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and photography. In a 2011 poll of more than 1,000 British artists, Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time.His pieces are in the permanent collections of major museums internationally, and his book Secret Knowledge was one of the bestselling art books of 2001. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s.