David Hockney Swimming Pool Painting

It measures 7 ft 10 ft 2 1 m 3 0 m 1 and depicts two figures.

David hockney swimming pool painting.

The tangled designs on the bottom of the pool itself make it seem like its own abstract painting within the painting. He has captured the moment just after someone has dived in. Artwork page for a bigger splash david hockney 1967 on display at tate britain. A swimming pool painting by david hockney could become the most valuable work of art by a living artist sold at auction.

Portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a large acrylic on canvas pop art painting by british artist david hockney completed in may 1972. The first started in 1971 was inspired by the serendipitous juxtaposition of two photographs on the artist s studio floor. One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer. A bigger splash is one of a number of paintings hockney made of californian swimming pools.

David hockney with a model in the pool at hockney s house in the hollywood hills in a 1978 photograph by michael childers. Michael childers hockney s swimming pool paintings exerted a powerful influence on other artists. Realizing the futility of his efforts hockney abandoned that effort and reinvigorated started the painting all over again. He chose a new.

One of the most iconic images in the artist s oeuvre david hockney s portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a story of two compositions. Hockney s first experiment with the swimming pool motif was painted in 1964. The splash is the only clue to their presence in the scene. David hockney in his hollywood hills studio in 2017.