“‘Who wouldn’t want one? Picasso or Van Gogh would have snapped one up,’ the artist David Hockney tells me at the opening of his latest show in Paris called Fleurs Fraiches, or Fresh Flowers,” Colin Grant reports for BBC News.
“The boyish grand old man of pop art with silver hair and lambent eyes is well known for his recent conversion to the iPhone and iPad for his work,” Grant reports. “Now, several of the tablet computers have been turned into technological canvases to display his latest work at an exhibition.”
“Hockney, dressed in a bespoke suit made with pockets large enough to fit an iPad, seems most amused by it all,” Grant reports. “More than a dozen iPads reveal the drawings, many of them flowers, with the artist’s signature flair and beguiling simplicity. The title is apt as the images on the iPads are ‘refreshed’ during the course of the show; new flowers replacing the earlier ones.”
Full article, with video, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chas” for the heads up.]
Always ironically amusing that video about the iPad is in non-playable Flash.
When will they ever learn?
Fan of Hockney’s work, also..
Always ironically amusing that video about the iPad is in non-playable Flash.
When will they ever learn?
Fan of Hockney’s work, also..
Whata guy:
His “pool” pieces – created during his Hollywood years, are beautiful. Remember when he went through his Polaroid period? A most original artist, and still going strong.
Whata guy:
His “pool” pieces – created during his Hollywood years, are beautiful. Remember when he went through his Polaroid period? A most original artist, and still going strong.
OK, I’ll start. But, but, the iPad is a consumption device… blah, blah, blah…
Thank you Mr. Hockney, for helping to drive the point home, that the iPad is far more than what the naysayers want it to be! It is, in fact, the future.
OK, I’ll start. But, but, the iPad is a consumption device… blah, blah, blah…
Thank you Mr. Hockney, for helping to drive the point home, that the iPad is far more than what the naysayers want it to be! It is, in fact, the future.
And in other news, the late Georges Seurat has asked Apple to make an iPad 8ft by 10ft so “…I can show that bugger Renoir just how ‘A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte’ is really supposed to look!”
=:~)
And in other news, the late Georges Seurat has asked Apple to make an iPad 8ft by 10ft so “…I can show that bugger Renoir just how ‘A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte’ is really supposed to look!”
=:~)
@Chas
No, just get the AutoStitch app and make an 8′ X 10′ file. I have already made huge multi-exposure merged images on my iPhones. I have not yet found a limit to the number of images it will stitch together.
@Chas
No, just get the AutoStitch app and make an 8′ X 10′ file. I have already made huge multi-exposure merged images on my iPhones. I have not yet found a limit to the number of images it will stitch together.
@Chas,
Impressionists would have a special appreciation for the digital age of pixels and light, and apply the dabbing technique with even more touch of flair!
@acid
Of all the Post-Impressionists, I think Seurat would have grokked the technology straight away and have sold his grandmother to get an iPad. His very technique was ideally suited to the device.
“White: a blank page or canvas. His favourite… so many possibilities.”
=:~)
How low standards have sunk!
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Oh, I loove Hockney. Anyone seen the 1980’s documentary with interview about his Malibu pieces? Great stuff!