Expos
David Hockney at the Orangery
For a long time, David Hockney's work on the iPad was regarded as a nice old painter's whim.
He discusses it with passion, to the point of repeating himself in front of an audience who tells him about his famous
Double Portraits
and his
Swimming Pools
.
With
A Year in Normandy
, the most rural of British pop artists shows in a breathtaking way where he was going.
He composes his frieze of the four seasons like the “Bayeux tapestry
”,
which he discovered, really, when he arrived in Normandy in 2019. Through a fluid alternation of close-ups and overviews, of buds observed so close that they become abstract spots and half-timbered houses (his own) which brings the old-fashioned and reassuring touch of a very French landscape, it gives the measure of time.
A year in Normandy
, 2020-2021, a frieze painted by David Hockney, at the Musée de l'Orangerie David Hockney
We start with simple blue lines that indicate fog, we go through all the states of the leaves, all the shades of green, we watch the clouds accumulate and then disperse in the blue, we
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