David Hockney Interview: I Am a Space Freak
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- “My sister once said to me she thought space was God. I thought that was rather poetic in a way.” Interview with David Hockney about his endeavour to capture Grand Canyon as a spatial experience in a painting.
“We like space, I mean, I do, I’m a space freak really.” If a landscape is a spatial experience, then how do you capture it as an artist? The grand canyon is the world greatest hole, thrilling to look down into it, no focus, no centre, no focal point: “The grandeur of it is very difficult to capture.” David Hockney decided to take on the unphotographable, and drove to the Grand Canyon thinking he would make a photographic collage. Once he saw the prints, he was displeased with the result, as they seemed too flat, he explains. That is why he decided to paint it in stead.
Hockney did two large scale paintings of Grand Canyon, the first one was based on the photographs, while the second one, 'A Closer Grand Canyon' seen in this interview, was painted from drawings which he made while staying in a hotel right by the edge of the canyon. Cameras make things distant, Hockney says. He also talks of why he decided to work with small canvases, and the problems of both moving and displaying large works of art.
Finally Hockney contemplates cinema and 3D and why to him even that is a flat experience. Two dimensions don´t exist in nature, Hockney says - flatness is to do with human scale: “I’m rather fascinated with flatness.” Today he is working with many cameras simultaniously, because they create illusion of space, via many perspectives. Really we create space in our head, based on time, Hockney adds. To have the feeling of space, a person must be looking around, freely. Nine camera perspectives means you are forced to move around, constantly scanning the scenery: “9D, isn’t that three times better than 3D?”
English artist David Hockney, (b.1937) studied at the Royal College of Art where in 1960 he was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements, not dissimilar to some works by Francis Bacon. Hockney has homes in Yorkshire, London and Los Angeles and an office in Hollywood.
In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages, which he called "joiners," first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially-processed color prints. Using Polaroid snaps or lab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.
David Hockney was interviewed by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2011
Camera and edit by: Martin Kogi
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2012
Supported by Nordea-fonden
David Hockney is a treasure in every way. How fortunate we are to have him in our lives.
You're looking at the majestic work, and then suddenly you are being drawn in and spellbound by what this man is saying
Just love this guy. Talented, brilliant, and humble. Gives the BEST interviews.
what a kind man. I've hung artworks that are difficult for difficult artists. to hear Mr. Hockney painting to make a work easier to transport and display is lovely.
When I listen to David Hockney or look at his paintings, why do I come alive again, and fall in love with life again?
Such attractive artwork - Thank you for this work David Hockney. You are awesome. We appreciate everything you have done for art.
Thank you! I could listen to him think and explain all day.
Genius, thank you for talking to us
I pulled a few strings to get a room!!!!! David Hockney!!!!
Such a profound thinker - he even managed to throw in a couple references to quantum physics. Loved his ‘explanation’ of spacetime.
He seems tuned into somthing! He seems like he has had a humbling from the "creator" and then from that an opening of the eyes or eye to realy feel and see
I love looking at his work and listening to him talk. So inspiring!!
Artist.....looking....drawing....looking.....walking up and away....
Ihe Bilder sind zum Träumen schön und einfach wundervoll.❣️🙏
I went on a vacation to NOLA went to the local gallery, as you do, and there it was.......this painting......great
Louisiana Channel: FANTASTIC INTERVIEW!
Happy 80th Birthday David Hockney
Such a smart and cultured man, I'm felling the same cause of the hysterical rhythm of movies, publicity , even speakers. It's an american viral virus. I've seen a perfect retrospective in Paris a few years ago, a great master. Now he's painting in Normandie the rhythm of the seasons, wise man.
I remember he was attempting to show space by imaging the inside a room..from different angles in one perspective or dimension....
This is beautiful images in one space..
I love to hear and see his intellect ...
He's right if course 👍
the Yorkshire country landscape paintings are my fav, his use of space, color and light are simply the best
David is a craftsman , obsessive genius … and a very funny observer … the paint is mind blowing … i am positive the greens and yellows at the front of the reds and browns … and the comic art feeling with pinks everywhere are the magic of the paint
and he's wearing a Van's tie, what a legend.
An amazing guy. A front-runner and innovator. Plus a very soft lovely guy.
“The Grand Canyon is the world’s biggest hole, in a way”
~ David Hockney
🎨👨🎨🌎👨🎨🎨
*I just love that comment. **00:26*
Absolutely brilliant.
Merci! M, Hockney pour nous aider a voir et imaginer d'autres dimensions en peinture.
Hockney is a treasure. Always re-inventing seeing.
Really nice painting.
He is a living treasure!
This is sooo beautiful,that ik had tears in my eyes.
Me too.....moving....to think one day he’ll be gone....I want to clone his heart, mind and hands ...he doesn’t watch t.v. ....humble with humility .....I stare at bark ....I see ....less is more
That is a fabulous painting - no one else could have done it.
saw his many many..60 maybe drawing of the said lane 2 years ago. Absolutely wonderful!!!!! worth hunting down in 2016 if you love drawing
Happy Birthday!
Fascinating ❤
"We see space through time" - wow.
This is wonderful
This man has helped me enormously to be a better artist
i love him so much
Visual work is brilliant!
Thank you 🙏
someone get him a vr headsets i wanna hear his thoughts on how vr gives sensations of space.
You read my mind.
great interview!
i adore him
Magical.
I knew him well he is a gem been to the canyon with him and Bryce Canyon too
God! What we will lose when these brilliant people are gone!
Nature is a thrill ....Art is exciting .....he knows how to look ....art teachers seem to have lost that !
Excellent 🎉
He is a painter's painter. So unaffected and wise about the activity of painting representationally. When the glibness that is art criticism is getting you down, just turn on a Hockney video or open one of his books.
If your drawing/painting process is not bringing you joy, then why on earth persist with it?
thankyou!! that's my thought about Hockney. His work bring me joy
- Learning how to draw and paint is a difficult task that requires persistence, many many years of your life and deep concentration. Not all are willing to pay this price.
- Hockney does a poor drawing and even poorer painting. That many can do.
@@lluhu You aren't fit to clean his brushes let alone claim "he does a poor drawing and even poorer painting".
@@MTMF.london Please respect other people's opinions without insulting. You love Hockney's works?...good for you. Now, you think everyone in the world MUST love Hockney's works? Then you have a problem with freedom of thought.
Exactly.....he did his time being academic .....do your homework and respect the artist......
You can show, thaks.
Keith Richards called... He wants his chuckle back. 😎
I think part of the problem is that gallery art.......has to be displayed on a wall ( usually ).......the ultimate for this kind of piece would be to mosaic it on the interior of a sphere maybe
Or on the floor. Looking down at it as if being there.
J aime énormément ses dessins du début
Spaced... the Final Frontier... To boldly space out where no one has spaced out before.
Marvelous
His VR-AR opinions pls. Also 9D is not about 9 cameras/vanishing points, just as 3D is not about 3 vanishing points. It's about dimensions. The 3rd dimension is space. 9 cameras still operate as 3D.
He was making a joke.
@@pipster1891 artists don't make jokes! (Sarcasm)
Hey, us yorkshire folk can tell a cracking good story ;)
This vid Better than 10000 painting-professor
'space is god' a very intelligent artist.
I think it was his sister who said that.
so sweet
Brilliant!
He's good...
The greatest living artist..................................dj🙂 I wish I could sell your art.
wow
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
❤
Very complecated
Complicated!
The man is a genius. End of story.
The Eye is Part of The Mind…
The energetic
Not bad, for a Yorkshireman.
Large canvasses always lack intimacy I am afraid. That is why it does not work for me, and I do like Hockney!
If you compare for example the seascapes done by Sorolla with those done by the "The Hague School", you can see what I mean. What I mean is big is not always better.
OmGod!
Please explain your comment.
Please explain your comment.
Well God is Spirit and we can't see this spirit with our human eyes. So space is God too. To feel God we have to rid ourselves o f our animal nature and seek our Godly potential. Our Godly potential is our love peace compassion empathy.
Hockney is a painter like I am but has got more brains than me. I'm envious of his logic.
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Don’t understand!
Josie5100 get a yorkshire di ctionary
No reason to spam, lady.
Im sorry...people think this guy is brilliant but what is he brilliant at? He's constantly justifiying why he does and why he does it but nooone seems to understands him but him so he's a genious??.
9D- new thinking
Just a joke. He just made a joke. Of course it's 3D.
Hahe,
OMG... is this a definition of A R T ? Did he took cocaïne with this?
He creates exactly what the masses think is art.
Masses have not seen much more than Van Gogh's and Dali's works...
BS. YOU don't know anything.
@@MTMF.london ...and you probably now it ALL. Wait, am I speaking to God? Please God, keep on writing in youtube and enlightening our dark souls.
@Ig Hanchks He definitely paints for the masses...it is pop-art + fauvism...just that. Compared to great modern artists like Freud, who did researched in the human nature through his paintings, Hockney is just a postcard.
@@lluhu it's people like you who think too much that actually don't know art. Art is personal self expression of the internal sensory experience. Of which he is a master.
@@nathanbellamy3308 Nathan, fauvism was invented long ago. Nothing new in the work of Hockney...