From the archive: David Hockney RA

To celebrate the forthcoming exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture (21 January - 9 April 2012) we've reproduced a selection of articles on David Hockney RA from the last 20 years of RA Magazine. You can read our latest coverage of the exhibition in RA Magazine Winter 2011.

RA Magazine Winter 2005 - Issue number 89

A difference of perspective

Western art history has long ignored the beauty and sophistication of Chinese painted scrolls. But, in fact, argues artist David Hockney RA, they are more like films than paintings and offer viewers the thrill of participating in the picture

RA Magazine Summer 2004 - Issue number 83

Life drawing

David Hockney RA argues that in the age of the camera, Rembrandt’s drawing of a family teaching a child to walk is still the best ever made

Kitchen confidential

Sarah Greenberg meets David Hockney RA and Allen Jones RA for a long lunch in Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen at Claridge’s.

RA Magazine Summer 1999 - Issue number 63

David Hockney RA on a post-photographic age

David Hockney RA speculates on how great artists have achieved photographic likenesses and reveals his own secrets

RA Magazine Winter 1995 - Issue number 49

Drawing his Life

His retrospective reveals that drawing to David Hockney RA is an infinite world to be discovered and enlarged, as Norbert Lynton relates.

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