Today, we would like to extend a happy birthday to the British artist David Hockney! In this work from the AMAM collection, we see the child-like and cartoonish style typical of Hockney’s works made prior to his move to California. Renowned for his musings on art, Hockney related The Hypnotist’s curtains to the modernist ideal of flatness: “A curtain, after all, is exactly like a painting; you can take a painting off a stretcher, hang it up like a curtain; so a painted curtain could be very real. All the philosophical things about flatness…are about reality, and if you cut out illusion then painting becomes completely ‘real’. The idea of the curtains is the same thing.”Image:David Hockney (English, b. 1963)The HypnotistEtchingBequest of Rosalind Constable in memory of Ellen Johnson1995.21.2 
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Today, we would like to extend a happy birthday to the British artist David Hockney! In this work from the AMAM collection, we see the child-like and cartoonish style typical of Hockney’s works made prior to his move to California. Renowned for his musings on art, Hockney related The Hypnotist’s curtains to the modernist ideal of flatness: “A curtain, after all, is exactly like a painting; you can take a painting off a stretcher, hang it up like a curtain; so a painted curtain could be very real. All the philosophical things about flatness…are about reality, and if you cut out illusion then painting becomes completely ‘real’. The idea of the curtains is the same thing.”

Image:
David Hockney (English, b. 1963)
The Hypnotist
Etching
Bequest of Rosalind Constable in memory of Ellen Johnson
1995.21.2 

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