Hockney, Printmaker (Review #2) - The Etchings
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At the goal of my preview of Hockney Printmaker at Dulwich Picture Gallery, my decision was that it was probable to live i of the rattling best exhibitions I'll reckon inwards 2014.
The finally exhibition past times Hockney inwards London was a blockbuster. My approximate is that this exhibition volition also generate lots of visitors. It includes over 100 industrial plant betwixt 1954 together with his more recent piece of job with computers inwards 2009. (The links are to my reviews of his most recent exhibitions inwards London)
I'm going to practice this review inwards to a greater extent than than i post, together with hence I tin include a lot of images, covering:
The exhibition is curated past times Richard Lloyd, International Head of Prints & Multiples, Christies who gave an in-depth together with rattling informative introduction to the exhibition. He gave quite the best introductory utter past times curators of recent exhibitions! The Curator's Lecture was today together with was sold out - together with I'm non surprised!
The finally exhibition past times Hockney inwards London was a blockbuster. My approximate is that this exhibition volition also generate lots of visitors. It includes over 100 industrial plant betwixt 1954 together with his more recent piece of job with computers inwards 2009. (The links are to my reviews of his most recent exhibitions inwards London)
I'm going to practice this review inwards to a greater extent than than i post, together with hence I tin include a lot of images, covering:
- The Etchings (this post)
- The Lithography (next post)
- Recent prints using novel applied scientific discipline (last post)
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| Entrance to the Hockney, Printmaker exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery |
The exhibition is curated past times Richard Lloyd, International Head of Prints & Multiples, Christies who gave an in-depth together with rattling informative introduction to the exhibition. He gave quite the best introductory utter past times curators of recent exhibitions! The Curator's Lecture was today together with was sold out - together with I'm non surprised!
“This exhibition volition render an insight into an aspect of Hockney’s piece of job which is oftentimes overlooked – that he is i of the most prolific, various together with technically shrewd printmakers alive. He has been making prints since 1954 together with throughout the subsequent sixty years he has continued to piece of job together with experiment. There’s a whole other side to Hockney, which he has devoted an enormous amount of release energy together with inventiveness to.”
Richard Lloyd
I was rattling impressed to reckon that a issue of the prints on present are the Artist Proof.
Here are the fundamental themes:
The Etchings are shown hither inwards series. His activity inwards etching dominated the 1960s together with 1990s.
Hockney hitting the set down running at the Royal College of Art when he kickoff came to London inwards 1959. The kickoff room includes some xxx etchings which he produced acre at the RCA. These include Hockney's rattling kickoff etching with aquatint created historic menses 23. Myself together with My Heroes is a piece of job of personal revelation. It includes the poet Walt Whitman together with Mahatma Gandhi together with a self portrait together with words together with phrases of pregnant to him.
His prints from this era e'er remind me of the poet e.e. cummings who also drew together with painted. Just every bit cummings' poems were e'er spare together with precise together with hence are Hockney's piece of job of words inside his prints. Also his words when expressing feelings together with thoughts are rattling oftentimes lower instance - every bit cummings wrote - together with layered with meaning.
The 4th etching is Hockney's thought of a pivot up. He had a massive trounce on Cliff Richard but homosexuality was illegal at the fourth dimension together with hence this etching includes the initials CR side past times side to the give-and-take Queen.
There's a sense that Hockney likes to tell stories with his prints together with is happy working on to a greater extent than than i impress to practice so.
A Rake's Progress is a rattling impressive prepare of xvi etchings - double that of the Hogarth serial which records the downfall of a immature aristocrat together with which was kickoff published inwards 1735. Hockney took 3 years to consummate the series. The RCA wanted him to practice 24 prints, inwards the goal he did xvi together with afterward has said he wishes he'd but done 8. He genuinely produced 45 compositions acre playing with ideas for the series. The exhibition includes 3 images which he started but did non include inwards the finally series.
This was the prepare of etchings which announced Hockney's arrival every bit an creative mortal of note.
He's taken the Hogarth serial together with updated it to create a graphic tale to reverberate his kickoff trip to New York inwards 1961 for his 24th birthday. It includes his portrayal of his coming together with William S. Lieberman who was "the legendary curator of the impress subdivision at the Museum of Modern Art". The serial concludes next some other see to New York when he met Henry Geldzahler, the First Curator of 20th Century Art at the MoMA.
Both the exhibition together with the catalogue explicate the even out revealed inwards the private prints.
It's of import to banknote from a technical viewpoint that these are NOT etched versions of drawings but rather than Hockney developed the drawing immediately on the plate. He also experimented with using the color carmine every bit an improver to the monochrome etching. However this required it was used inwards an expanse on the plate untouched past times the balance of the etching together with inwards the goal he decided he didn't similar the agency it limited his overall blueprint of the etching.
The side past times side major serial of etchings after a Rake's Progress was Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy which tin live flora inwards the side past times side room. He commissioned a novel translation by the poets Stephen Spender together with Nikos Stangos together with this was published amongst the etchings inwards 1967 but every bit Parliament passed the deed which decriminalised homosexual activity.
This serial is inwards final result Hockney's "gay manifesto" - the drawings are his personal opinion on his agency of living. This is an good past times Christies which explicate the poems. Apparently at the time, some of the printers refused to live involved with the printmaking due to the topics of some of the illustrations. However, inwards the context of today's the world they at nowadays seem quite tame.
Hockney was introduced to the poems of the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) at the RCA past times Adrian Berg. Berg introduced him to the verse of Walt Whitman together with Cadafy who both wrote verse well-nigh homosexuality. Apparently Hockney borrowed a re-create of the poems from the Bradford library together with hasn't yet got circular to giving it back.
The interesting aspect of these etchings are they a rattling beautiful prepare of business drawings. He'd been working difficult at drawing from life inwards pen together with ink together with that genuinely shows through inwards these etchings. It was also interesting to listen that he'd been influenced past times Matisse. My approximate is that he was also influenced past times Picasso who was also rattling capable of producing spare together with uncomplicated business drawings. (Incidentally, his etchings involving business together with business drawings inwards pen together with ink are the foundation of my longstanding admiration for David Hockney)
One etching from the serial "In the piece of cake Village" was included every bit a seminal piece of job in A History of the World inwards 100 Objects past times Neil McGregor, the Director of the British Museum (Here's the programme on BBC Radio in which you tin listen David Hockney confess that he never took the volume dorsum to Bradford Library after taking it out for the instant time.)
Hockney researched all the known illustrated versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales, read all 239 tales together with took a trip downwardly the Rhine to accept photographs together with brand drawings for inspiration. In all the projection took over a yr of his life betwixt September 1968 together with Nov 1969 - with the serial beingness published inwards 1970.
In the goal he chose twenty tales, of these fifteen were translated together with 12 made it to the finally series. That said he'd produced fourscore etchings earlier he realised he needed to rein inwards his efforts together with acquire to a greater extent than focused.
In technical terms, this serial - together with the private images - represents a dialogue betwixt the iv principal methods used for etching - hard-ground together with soft-ground etching, aquatint together with drypoint. It's every bit if he prepare himself challenges to reckon what he could do. An representative of this is his portrayal of The Glass Mountain. The challenge was to detect a agency of portraying the mount - which he resolved inwards the goal past times using the final result of refraction which was evident when some other object was placed behind it. That's the other primary argue I similar Hockney - he's a clever adult man who likes solving problems of perception together with representation.
The exhibition also includes important piece of job inwards etchings from the 1990s including a self portrait.
I'm going to live going dorsum to this exhibition in i lawsuit to a greater extent than to thought the prints in i lawsuit to a greater extent than after I've read the catalogue from encompass to cover!
You tin also read other reviews of the exhibition:
David Hockney’s Biographer together with Hockney:Printmaker catalogue contributor Christopher Simon Sykes gives an exclusive insight into the artist’s childhood growing upwardly inwards Bradford together with his life upwardly until he left the Royal College of Art inwards 1962
Create an edition of dark together with white prints, inspired past times Hockney’s illustrative together with notwithstanding life etchings. Visit theHockney: Printmaker exhibition together with create ii linear compositions onto beautiful Fabriano Rosaspina newspaper with printmaker Victoria Browne
Create an edition of color prints, inspired past times Hockney’s portrait lithographs. Participants volition acquire a low-toxic techniques together with piece of job from the life model with printmaker Victoria Browne
David Hockney’s prints demonstrate a honey of business together with sensitivity to materials together with techniques. Taking this every bit a starting point, explore business drawing inwards printmaking with creative mortal Jo Veever
Book online at www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Or past times telephone on 020 8299 8732
Hockney, Printmaker
Here are the fundamental themes:
the exhibition celebrates sixty years of Hockney every bit a printmaker - since his kickoff impress was made at Bradford College of Art.
David Hockney, Artist together with Model, 1973-74,Etching, 29 1/2" x 22 1/2",Edition: 100, © David Hockney- printmaking is a medium which Hockney is passionate about
- he excels at printmaking which involves drawing and his ii primary impress techniques are etching together with lithography. He hates covert prints - because they're also flat
- he's absolutely fascinated past times creating novel ways of making prints
- He switches betwixt mediums every bit this polymath's ideas of what he wants to practice side past times side develop
- Hockney references other artists together with their artwork all the fourth dimension - but inwards a agency which is wholly master copy to him. The exhibition offers the chance to play "spot the artistic reference".
- He is diligent inwards doing his homework earlier he starts work. It's normal for him to practice extensive research, see places together with produced lots of drawings earlier he gets going on the finally artwork.
- Hockney is a rattling prolific artist. This exhibition picks upwardly on some of the primary themes - but there's also a lot that's non there.
- He's a rattling literate creative mortal who manifestly has a deep honey of poetry
- He typically industrial plant inwards serial or themes - which are oftentimes multi-layered inwards their meaning. Lloyd described them every bit beingness light-hearted together with fifty-fifty amusing on the surface, acre underneath they tin live an amalgam of Renaissance portraiture together with 'Art Brut' or lavatorial art.
- He creates far to a greater extent than than he releases. This exhibition is interesting because it also includes prints which didn't brand the finally cut.
- Hockney has worked with some of the best contemporary Master Printmakers - including Picasso's Master Printer Aldo Crommelynk every bit good every bit Maurice Payne inwards the Great Britain together with Ken Tyler of Gemini inwards California. He has huge regard for them together with has participated inwards novel developments inwards printmaking.
- Hockney is an independent man, an independent thinker and, surprise surprise, rather likes the thought of beingness able to brand prints without needing to live assisted past times a Master Printer. So he did.
- the exhibition holds i or ii surprises!
The Etchings
The Etchings are shown hither inwards series. His activity inwards etching dominated the 1960s together with 1990s.
Hockney hitting the set down running at the Royal College of Art when he kickoff came to London inwards 1959. The kickoff room includes some xxx etchings which he produced acre at the RCA. These include Hockney's rattling kickoff etching with aquatint created historic menses 23. Myself together with My Heroes is a piece of job of personal revelation. It includes the poet Walt Whitman together with Mahatma Gandhi together with a self portrait together with words together with phrases of pregnant to him.
His prints from this era e'er remind me of the poet e.e. cummings who also drew together with painted. Just every bit cummings' poems were e'er spare together with precise together with hence are Hockney's piece of job of words inside his prints. Also his words when expressing feelings together with thoughts are rattling oftentimes lower instance - every bit cummings wrote - together with layered with meaning.
The 4th etching is Hockney's thought of a pivot up. He had a massive trounce on Cliff Richard but homosexuality was illegal at the fourth dimension together with hence this etching includes the initials CR side past times side to the give-and-take Queen.
There's a sense that Hockney likes to tell stories with his prints together with is happy working on to a greater extent than than i impress to practice so.
H5N1 Rake's Progress
A Rake's Progress is a rattling impressive prepare of xvi etchings - double that of the Hogarth serial which records the downfall of a immature aristocrat together with which was kickoff published inwards 1735. Hockney took 3 years to consummate the series. The RCA wanted him to practice 24 prints, inwards the goal he did xvi together with afterward has said he wishes he'd but done 8. He genuinely produced 45 compositions acre playing with ideas for the series. The exhibition includes 3 images which he started but did non include inwards the finally series.
This was the prepare of etchings which announced Hockney's arrival every bit an creative mortal of note.
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| A Rake's Progress past times David Hockney |
Both the exhibition together with the catalogue explicate the even out revealed inwards the private prints.
It's of import to banknote from a technical viewpoint that these are NOT etched versions of drawings but rather than Hockney developed the drawing immediately on the plate. He also experimented with using the color carmine every bit an improver to the monochrome etching. However this required it was used inwards an expanse on the plate untouched past times the balance of the etching together with inwards the goal he decided he didn't similar the agency it limited his overall blueprint of the etching.
Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy
The side past times side major serial of etchings after a Rake's Progress was Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy which tin live flora inwards the side past times side room. He commissioned a novel translation by the poets Stephen Spender together with Nikos Stangos together with this was published amongst the etchings inwards 1967 but every bit Parliament passed the deed which decriminalised homosexual activity.
This serial is inwards final result Hockney's "gay manifesto" - the drawings are his personal opinion on his agency of living. This is an good past times Christies which explicate the poems. Apparently at the time, some of the printers refused to live involved with the printmaking due to the topics of some of the illustrations. However, inwards the context of today's the world they at nowadays seem quite tame.
 |
| Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy past times David Hockney |
The interesting aspect of these etchings are they a rattling beautiful prepare of business drawings. He'd been working difficult at drawing from life inwards pen together with ink together with that genuinely shows through inwards these etchings. It was also interesting to listen that he'd been influenced past times Matisse. My approximate is that he was also influenced past times Picasso who was also rattling capable of producing spare together with uncomplicated business drawings. (Incidentally, his etchings involving business together with business drawings inwards pen together with ink are the foundation of my longstanding admiration for David Hockney)
One etching from the serial "In the piece of cake Village" was included every bit a seminal piece of job in A History of the World inwards 100 Objects past times Neil McGregor, the Director of the British Museum (Here's the programme on BBC Radio in which you tin listen David Hockney confess that he never took the volume dorsum to Bradford Library after taking it out for the instant time.)
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| David Hockney, Two Boys Aged 23 or 24 from Illustrations For Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy, 1966-67, Etching, 31 1/2 x 22 |
Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
The side past times side large projection involving etchings was some other i based on a literary source - this fourth dimension Grimm's Fairy Tales. The simplicity of them appealed to him together with he'd loved them since his childhood. Again he got a novel translation of the master copy text. |
| Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm past times David Hockney |
In the goal he chose twenty tales, of these fifteen were translated together with 12 made it to the finally series. That said he'd produced fourscore etchings earlier he realised he needed to rein inwards his efforts together with acquire to a greater extent than focused.
In technical terms, this serial - together with the private images - represents a dialogue betwixt the iv principal methods used for etching - hard-ground together with soft-ground etching, aquatint together with drypoint. It's every bit if he prepare himself challenges to reckon what he could do. An representative of this is his portrayal of The Glass Mountain. The challenge was to detect a agency of portraying the mount - which he resolved inwards the goal past times using the final result of refraction which was evident when some other object was placed behind it. That's the other primary argue I similar Hockney - he's a clever adult man who likes solving problems of perception together with representation.
A King built a drinking glass mount together with announced he would give his immature lady to the kickoff adult man who could climb it without falling.
The Picasso Prints
There are other etchings inwards the exhibition I could comment on but the ii most obvious - together with the prints which a lot of people volition live familiar with are the ii which involve Picasso. There are some other ii which involve Hockney using sugar-lift aquatint inwards the latter for his drawing of Picasso inwards Artist together with Model to signify "this is Picasso's technique" - every bit indeed it was. |
| Contrejour inwards the French Style (1974) together with Two Vases inwards the Louvre (1974) past times David Hockney Hard together with soft-ground etching with aquatint inwards colours - produced using i plate |
The exhibition also includes important piece of job inwards etchings from the 1990s including a self portrait.
I'm going to live going dorsum to this exhibition in i lawsuit to a greater extent than to thought the prints in i lawsuit to a greater extent than after I've read the catalogue from encompass to cover!
Other reviews
You tin also read other reviews of the exhibition:
- BBC News - In Pictures - David Hockney Prints
- The Guardian (Maev Kennedy) - David Hockney prints exhibition opens spanning sixty years of artist's work
- The Telegraph (Alastair Smart) - Hockney: Printmaker, Dulwich Picture Gallery, review
- Evening Standard (Ben Luke) - Hockney, Printmaker, Dulwich Picture Gallery - exhibition review
A fully illustrated color catalogue published past times Scala accompanies the exhibition together with features an essay past times Richard Lloyd. It explored the fundamental themes inwards the exhibition inwards the context of the artist’s biography, together with illuminating texts from contributors such every bit Marco Livingston, John Kasmin, Peter Tatchell, Celia Birtwell, together with Martin Gayford.The exhibition is every bit e'er beautifully hung past times the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Loans receive got been secured from fundamental lenders including Salt’s Mill, Saltaire, David Hockney Inc., David Hockney Foundation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Bradford Museums and Galleries, Tate together with Private Collections.
Associated fine art events
Special Exhibition Lecture - Art every bit Autobiography: The Early Work of David Hockney
Lord's Day nine March 11am-12pm £9/£10David Hockney’s Biographer together with Hockney:Printmaker catalogue contributor Christopher Simon Sykes gives an exclusive insight into the artist’s childhood growing upwardly inwards Bradford together with his life upwardly until he left the Royal College of Art inwards 1962
Hockney Printmaker: Etching
Lord's Day nine together with xvi March 10.30am – 4pm £70/ £65Create an edition of dark together with white prints, inspired past times Hockney’s illustrative together with notwithstanding life etchings. Visit theHockney: Printmaker exhibition together with create ii linear compositions onto beautiful Fabriano Rosaspina newspaper with printmaker Victoria Browne
Hockney Printmaker: Lithography
Lord's Day 23 March 10.30 – 4pm £70/ £65Create an edition of color prints, inspired past times Hockney’s portrait lithographs. Participants volition acquire a low-toxic techniques together with piece of job from the life model with printmaker Victoria Browne
Hockney Printmaker: Love of Line
Five Tuesdays from 22 Apr to twenty May £55 / £50David Hockney’s prints demonstrate a honey of business together with sensitivity to materials together with techniques. Taking this every bit a starting point, explore business drawing inwards printmaking with creative mortal Jo Veever
Book online at www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Or past times telephone on 020 8299 8732
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