21 January—9 April 2012
Exhibitions - In the Main Galleries, Burlington House
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In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts and will be shown alongside related drawings and film.
David Hockney, 'Woldgate Woods, 21, 23 & 29 November 2006', 2006. Oil on 6 canvases. 182 x 366 cm. Courtesy of the Artist. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt
'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' will span a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape. New work that dates from 2005 captures the beauty of the changing seasons, the cycle of growth and the journey that Hockney has taken through his beloved landscapes in Yorkshire.
The exhibition will also reveal how Hockney has embraced new technology, including his early use of the Polaroid, his innovative use of the colour photocopier, and more recently his iPhone and iPad. The exhibition will include a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which will be displayed on multiple screens and which will provide a spellbinding visual journey through the eyes of David Hockney.
Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney attended Bradford School of Art before studying at the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1962. Hockney’s stellar reputation was established while he was still a student; his work was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries, which heralded the birth of British Pop Art. He visited Los Angeles in the early 1960s and settled there soon after. He is closely associated with southern California and has produced a large body of work there over many decades. David Hockney was elected a Royal Academician in 1991.
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Friends Reviews
What a wonderful, wonderful exhibition from an amazing artist. Thank you.
Happy! What a happy show...
Uplifting, Inspirational, Stimulating!!....and Made In Britain!!
JUST what we ALL need right now in these troubled Times!
The Royal Academy should KEEP a PERMANENT Exhibit to this truly outsdanding British artist.
Well Done and Thank You, David Hockney!
KEEP GOING!!
Im studying Hockney at college and this exhibition was inspiring, exciting and educational!!! David Hockney see's the world in a way which everyone should :)
Thank you for the generosity with which you have shared your vision of that Yorkshire landscape and for the joy you have communicated throughout the exhibition. This is just what we need right now - thank you mille fois!