David Hockney review – a 90-metre vision of nature that only looks great on your phone
By Guardian Arts · 5 days ago
Serpentine North, London The artist has stitched together 100 iPad paintings into a vast digital frieze – but the results risk undermining the pleasure in simple beauty which was his great gift to British art David…
Serpentine North, London The artist has stitched together 100 iPad paintings into a vast digital frieze – but the results risk undermining the pleasure in simple beauty which was his great gift to British art David Hockney reassured postwar Britain that it was OK to take pleasure in beauty and freedom. Emerging in the late 1950s, when the energy released by the artistic revolutions of half a century earlier had dissipated into dull academicism or tiresome machismo, his unabashed celebration of conventional forms of beauty revitalised modern painting. These coolly sentimental double portraits…