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.

RA Magazine Winter 2011 - Issue number 113

The infinity of nature

Now in his seventies, David Hockney RA is characteristically breaking new ground to fill the vast spaces of his RA show with works on a colossal scale. He tells Martin Gayford why he is using the latest digital technology in innovative ways to tackle a subject that has preoccupied artists for centuries – nature

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 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 the camera obscura

David Hockney 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 is an infinite world to be discovered and enlarged, as Norbert Lynton relates.

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