![]() ![]() I read many books about him and his work in the summer of 2012. That was the start of my David Hockney immersion period. ![]() I was pulled right in, and I bought the book. The mixture of fact and fiction and of love and loss was irresistible. It seemed to me that this painting was Hockney’s way to rekindle what they had or it was a way to acknowledge that Schlesinger was also an artist in his own right (hence the title, Portrait of an Artist ). When Hockney painted this, they had already broken up. While the book recounts Hockney’s rise as a painter, it also tells a love story between the two and their subsequent breakup in the 1970s. I was intrigued by the relationship between David Hockney and Peter Schlesinger, the subject of this painting. It was a beautiful painting, so light and airy. Portrait of An Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972. As I leafed through it, I became captivated by this painting. ![]() The book had just come out then, and it was prominently displayed. In May 2012, I came across the book, David Hockney: The Biography, 1937-1975, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art bookstore. (L) Pearlblossom Highway, 11th-18th April 1986 (R) Walking In The Zen Garden At Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto, 1983. He called these photo collages “joiners.” They were interesting, but I didn’t like how visually noisy they were, and so I soon forgot about them. Totally different mediums I said to myself, and so I didn’t pay attention even when I saw his photographic experiments from the 1980s. He’s a painter, and I wanted to be a photographer. David Hockney had a lot to do with it.Ĭoming from a non-arts background, my art history knowledge was virtually zero when I started my MFA in 2010, so understandably, I’ve never heard of Hockney. I kept seeing David Hockney the past two weeks: first, in the Departures magazine cover for July/August second, as I was hunting for a book to bring to the beach and third, in a poster at a bed & breakfast place in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware! In honor of these coincidences, I decided to write an origin story this week, as in, how I ended up doing collage. Photography / synchronicity / Influences / David Hockney That David Hockney Painting (Or How I Ended Up Doing Collage) ![]()
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