Featured Artist David Hockney has died aged 88 R.I.P

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gye2zk29zt

David Hockney has died at the age of 88, his publicist says

He passed away at home on Thursday, she says, "one month short of his 89th birthday"

The British artist is one of the most influential of the modern era and was one of the leaders of the 1960s pop art movement.

 

RIP David Hockney.
Loved his paintings, like an eternal summer.

 

RIP David Hockney.

 

I worked on a show which David Hockney designed. When we needed to check the designs we had to sign for them as they were so valuable!
One morning as he was walking into the stage door, the security staff wouldn't let him in as he was so tatilly dressed, they thought he had just walkied in off the street! I was standing behind him and had to vouch for him that he was David Hockney and that he was working there!

RIP David Hockney

 

(LOL) I'm not surprised. Honestly not.

 

RIP......

 

I remember that one evening after a show he and some friends had dinner in a little local restaurant that I knew. Instead of leaving a tip, Hockney signed the table cloth and told the waiter to insure it for £10.000 ! Spilt wine, sauce, ash etc.etc. and David Hockney's signature, £10.000.
I suppose now it would be classed as modern 'art', by a master!
This was back in the mid 80's.

 

Blacksmith-May I ask what type of things you did in the art world ?
PS- Hockney was a superb artist who was respected by serious collectors, painters & students in addition to the general public-quite a feat.
Not sure Bacon or Freud are as generally known or beloved beloved-bit like Warhol but perhaps more popular ?

 

@bosko69 I looked after weapons and armour, and also did leatherwork, and some prop making etc. I worked in the theatre, and tv and film.

 

Sounds quite interesting Blacksmith, and it sounds like you've met some interesting folks !

 

I was fortunate to have met many, and worked for and made items for quite a few more. I didn't always get to meet the people that I worked for unfortunately, but that is the way the business often goes.
What is fun is seeing something on film or TV that I have made, but totally forgotten about.

 

I have enjoyed seeing an item on film or tv , that the company rented from my Gallery !!

 

Was not a big fan of his, initially. Something about the naive nature of the style and his use of color in some works is off-putting to me. His work has grown on me a bit but there are still some works I don't like at all.

 

I was not a fan either, neither am I a fan of Picasso, however, both artists were very fine artists, in what I call the true sense, back in their early days. I saw an early Hockney featured on The Antiques Roadshow a while back, which was a landscape, and quite a fine one too. Evidently he did these back in his early days before developing his own style.

 

I've never enjoyed Picasso either; his work has just never "sang" to me. Some of Hockney's sang like a canary.

 

Agree-Some of his 60's work's quite sophisticated while many of his later panels are very 'naive' (primitive)- 'influenced by Picasso & Chinese scrolls, both styles reject the rigid, single-point Western perspective.' It let him pursue childlike freedom and probably jump-started his creativity.

 

Picasso went thru some huge changes-

 

I usually don't confess this, but Picasso doesn't work for me either. It's like when I tell someone I don't eat any kind of fish or sea food because I hate the flavor. They look at me like I'm from another planet and say things like "You don't like lobster or shrimp?" with amazement in their voice. It's not worth the trouble of trying to explain it so sometimes I just say I'm allergic and people leave me alone.

Of course that wouldn't work for not liking Picasso

 

Thritto.

The Hockney tablecloth story makes him seem rather conceited...
Though his siggie may indeed be worth something, I find it silly to think that the spills of his group's dinner would have any/much value, unless he did them with a paint brush.

 

Yes it does, but he wasn't like that. I think he merely wanted to give the waiter a really good tip!!
As for the table cloth being art and valuable, Tracy Emin's bed springs to mind.... That's not my idea of art either.