David Hockney’s new art exhibit, titled The Arrival Of Spring, showcases 116 works in praise of the natural world. While his artworks look simple, they’re still wonderful to look at! Hockney used an iPad and a stylus to create these paintings. The original works featured in the exhibition are a demonstration in uniformity, though - all the 116 works are identically sized, in similar color palette of neon yellow, shocking pink, felt-pen lime and turquoise:
Hockney uses the free app Brushes, and it shows in every millimetre of these huge enlargements. Forget the virtuoso subtlety of his draughtsmanship in the 60s and 70s, or the originality of his American paintings. What you are looking at here is the expressive limitation of his virtual tool box.
A graze of parallel lines stands for a leaf or cloud; dots of different density are used for seeds, flowers or rising suns; grass comes ribbed, knitted or in sharp little toothpicks. Ready-made motifs proliferate. Blossoms are arrays of danish pastry whorls, both ugly and unpersuasive. Even the innately beautiful structure of a tree is undermined by the stick-figure lines, which lack all eloquence or fluidity. The register is as false and fudged as an electronic signature.
Image via The Guardian
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