February 2007, the Private View of ‘David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape at LA Louver Gallery, Venice CA (in fact the first of two PVs, for David’s friends and collectors. The second David didn’t attend, but amusingly someone impersonating him did). With his bad hearing, Hockney finds these events taxing. Among the guests are old friend and fellow RCA student Derek Boshier and the actor and director Dennis Hopper, with then wife Victoria Duffy and 3-year-old daughter Galen. Hopper is also an art collector, painter, sculptor and established documentary photographer, so I was amused to see him struggling with the menus on his camera. Hopper died three years later.
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This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim.
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Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, A Bigger Picture captures Britain’s most beloved painter at work. David Hockney’s return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood - outside, in all weathers, through the seasons - culminates in the largest picture ever made outdoors. It’s an inspiring story of a painter in creative dialogue with nature and photography, and a revealing portrait of Britain’s most popular and celebrated artist.
“This wonderful film … will be of lasting importance for future generations who want to understand Hockney’s art.” Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4
“Bruno Wollheim’s portrait of this forthright magus is an unqualified, life-enhancing joy from start to finish.” - The Sunday Times
“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.” - The Times, London.
“As gently hypnotic and fulfilling as one of Hockney’s own works.” - Time Out
“This impressive documentary is almost cinematic in its scope… both majestic and intimate” - The Observer
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