David Hockney
’Orgy of the rich’ protest-performance at Sotheby’s, London
→ Art Design Publicity magazineKim Min Su - 19 Feb 11
...David Hockney, Antony Gormley— and Chinese protest artist Ai Weiwei. The Andy Warhol piece was sold for £3.2 million. To see the substantial media consumption and publicity outputs, click below— and don’t forget to search in different languages to see the impact of the performances in non-English...
Art and celebrity book summary (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Jul 10
Art and celebrity book summary (2010) Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity...
Most Art Sucks: 20th century art history recap (Automated music)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineCoagula readers, Mat Gleason, Kim Min Su - 14 Apr 10
...David Hockney art' title='David Hockney art' /> la la... la la... la la la... la la It’s a fucking gas... baby... For the full list and #1, sorry, you’ll have to buy Most art sucks... "we don’t fuck around here."—Mat Gleason. “Excerpted” from...
Love is the devil: Study for a portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) film review
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 06 Apr 09
Love is the devil: Study for a portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) film review A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen. In London, during the 1950s, it was Francis Bacon (1909-92), the virtually self-taught painter and homosexual, who emerged as Britain’s...
David Hockney in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 10 Jun 03
David Hockney in Art and Celebrity (2003) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s now-classic book. Another British homosexual artist who was to become famous after Francis Bacon was David Hockney (b. 1937). Although most of his work was not pop, he was one of the pop art generation that emerged from the...
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 08 May 02
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Left Shift which gives a year-by-year account of developments. Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). In China, Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai died; and the...
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 93
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993) The title of Robert Hughes’ major pundit series about modern art was rather misleading because it contained little that was either shocking or new. This was because by 1980 modern art had become very familiar, an accepted part of official culture....
The South Bank Show (LWT, 1978-) (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 28 May 93
The South Bank Show (LWT, 1978-) (1993) The South Bank Show (LWT, 1978-) was commercial television’s answer to BBC One’s Omnibus. Programme title sequences are a minor, undervalued televisual / musical artform. Their function is to grab and hold the viewer’s attention, to sum up the mood,...
Full House TV programme - BBC Two - c. early 1970s (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 20 May 93
...David Hockney), Stuart Brisley and Sidney Nolan. In order to prompt a live response, works of art were sometimes brought into the studio and then a debate with the audience about them was instituted. It is clear from the above summary that Full House attempted to cover a range of artforms,...
West Coast School (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92
...David Hockney); assemblage and tableau (Edward Kienholz who moved to LA in 1953); naive art (Simon Rodia, creator of the famous Watts Towers); the funk art ceramicists; the customizing and finish fetish cults of Los Angeles; San Francisco rock poster art in the psychedelic style and...
Tyler Graphics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella. Critics described Tyler’s West Coast lithographs as exemplifying an “industrial aesthetic”. Tyler has been a commercially successful printmaker but he has also encouraged technical...
Shaped Canvas (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Allen Jones, Kenneth Noland, Harvey Quaytman, James Rosenquist, John Stezaker and Joe Tilson have created Shaped Canvases, but the chief exponent of the genre was Frank Stella. His famous series of notched canvases with their external forms determined by the pattern of the...
Scenography (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley, David Salle and Gerald Scarfe. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90), the avant garde Polish artist-designer and leader of the troupe “Cricot 2”, overlapped both categories. In 1988 the Linbury Prize for stage design was instituted in Britain....
Quantel Paintbox (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Sidney Nolan, Howard Hodgkin and others experimented with the machine for the BBC 2 TV series “Painting with light”. See also Computer-Aided Design, Computer Art, Rock video. References and further readings > William Feaver. “Screen debut”. Observer Magazine. April 19, 1987, pp....
Popular Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Popular Art (1992) (Also Indigenous Arts, Vernacular Art.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Popular Art Popular Art is a complex and problematical concept because, arguably, the two words making up the term contradict one another. The...
Pop Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Joe Tilson. The Americans included Jim Dine, Jann Haworth (who worked in Britain), Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. R. B. Kitaj— American but resident in...
Plastics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Plastics (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Plastics Plastics are a group of natural and synthetic materials which can be shaped and moulded when soft. (The word “plastic” derives from the Greek "plastikos" meaning “mouldable”,...
Photo-Works (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...David Hockney, John Hilliard, Richard Long, Yve Lomax, Sarah McCarthy, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Paul Wombell. These artists have contributed to a dozen different tendencies: feminist art, land art, conceptual art, story art, and so on. Most conceptual artists...
New Contemporaries (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...David Hockney and Peter Phillips (all students at the Royal College of Art). Periodically the exhibition failed to take place because of lack of energy, funds or organization. In 1974 the name “New Contemporaries” was adopted. Catalogues are usually produced and the one listed below contains a...
Narrative Figuration / Narrative Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...David Hockney, Ken Kiff, Anthony Green, Maggi Hambling, Peter Sylveire and others. Hyman’s conception of “narrative” was somewhat imprecise. He did not mean pictures which told stories in an illustrational or literary sense but which had “subjects” and which demonstrated “an imaginative vision of...
