The Hockney exhibition
I liked Garrowby hill 1998 and the watercolour landscapes. The
Charcoal tree drawings are strong.
He enjoys hawthorn but makes it look like worms and I really didn’t like these paintings. He is so prolific he makes a virtue out of the speedy unfinished appearance of a lot of his work. His
early scratched landscape is great, full of joy. I was ambivalent about fluorescent colours in arranged felled trees but yes it worked and I changed my mind about this. His work seems to be about: pattern, marks, joy and simplification. His iPad art is true to the marks that this digital method naturally makes. His iPad Work appears unforced and natural.
I love in particular the iPad images of 4 January, 18 march, and 22 march. I don’t like use of spray marks in his iPad art unless very subtle. I really dislike the whole room full on the Sermon on the mount 2010 but the large landscapes from the iPad work! I felt I could almost walk into them.
