📗 Libro en inglés THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DAVID HOCKNEY

A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney s insights into art life nature creativity and much more I ve always been a looker that s what artists do This anthology of quotations by David Hockney follows in the successful format of The World According to series Ranging across topics including drawing photography nature creativity the internet and much more The World According to David Hockney offers a delightful and engaging overview of the artist s inimitable spirit personality and opinions From everyday observations The eye is always moving if it isn t moving you are dead to artistic insights such as painted colour always will be better than printed colour because it is the pigment itself as well as musings on other image makers including Caravaggio Cézanne and Hokusai Hockney has a knack for capturing profound truths in pithy statements Born in Bradford England in 1937 Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s There he painted his famous swimming pool paintings and since then has embraced a range of media including photocollage video and digital technologies In a 2011 poll of more than 1 000 British artists Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time P