
Artists
They Said What | Part II
16 Mar 2021
The artist had visited Normandy in 2018 and thought it would be the perfect place to draw and paint the arrival of spring, something he had previously taken on in Easter Yorkshire around a decade earlier. Hockney was attracted to Normandy because it offered a broader range of blossoms. "We found this house with a large garden that was cheaper than anything in Sussex", he wrote in a letter to Will Gomperz, arts editor for the BBC. "I began drawing the winter trees on a new iPad," he said. "Then this virus started…
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important," the artist noted. "We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned? I am 83 years old, I will die. The cause of death is birth. The only real things in life are food and love in that order, just like our little dog Ruby. I really believe this and the source of art is love... I love life."
Hockney’s two latest London exhibitions have been closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. His show at the National Portrait Gallery, which opened at the end of February, is the first major display dedicated to his drawings in 20 years. The artist also made headlines last month when his iconic piece, The Splash, sold for £23.1 million at Sotheby's auction – more than eight times the amount it had last sold in 2006.
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