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My Vanity- David Hockney outtake 58/80
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Күн бұрынThe artist as exhibitionist. Many of his friends considered David’s decision in the 70’s to set down roots in provincial California as a kind of professional suicide. For this professional contrarian, he was to prove them wrong in spades. More than any of the other artists he mentions, all of whom were born in the American West, he was to make California indelibly his own, a place forever now associated with swimming pools, lawn sprinklers, palm trees and naked boys. Interestingly he doesn’t mention another artist who settled in Northern California who can claim to have also stamped himself on the imagery of the American West, the great Wayne Thiebaud.
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This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim.
Watch the full film here: vimeo.com/onde...
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
Watch the full documentary here: vimeo.com/2248...
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@lucianopavarotti2843 Жыл бұрын
Greatly enjoyed the full documentary and each of these outtakes sheds new light. All together, an important testament. Thank you.
@brunowollheim1525 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Baypointify 3 жыл бұрын
Hockney's career has been an amazing feat, and moving to california was only one element -- he also painted in styles and subjects that were not in the mainstream of art, but he made it work anyway. I most appreciate his early draughtsman skill, his virtuosity -- that in his later years, he seems to abandon. Instead he looks to Picasso and Van Gogh for direction. Not the necessary art of our time, but impressive nonetheless. These clips are great, thank you
@colugapictures7529 3 жыл бұрын
Hi there, glad you like them! From 2001 to 2013, when we were in close contact and David was in England, he was intent on working in a faster more fluid way - Picasso and VG definitely on his mind, Munch and Monet too. So some distance from the slow, painstaking working methods of the 60s and 70s. However drawing never went away, no to my mind his virtuosity. My documentary features a sketchbook of roadside grasses, his charcoal sketches of cut timber of 2013, another drawing of a row of trees also come to mind. By the way, how did you come across these outtakes?
@Baypointify 3 жыл бұрын
@@colugapictures7529 i was thinking of his early pencil or color pencil drawings of friends like Celia Birtwell. In his color pencil drawings, lines were often over-drawn with various colors to make a very rich contour. really liked that. his recent drawings are great too but loosely drawn, impressioist as you say like Monet. My criticism of Hockney is worth what it cost you. But critic Robert Hughes, who liked Hockney, said words to the effect: Hockney is often mistaken by the public for their Mozart, when he is more like their Cole Porter. i found your videos from "hockney" as a search. I've seen the documentary Bruno Wollheim made (are you he?) which was excellent! only question is why did you show his cook driving the car and well how can i say this -- luxuriantly picking his nose. Did you hate each other or something?
@colugapictures7529 3 жыл бұрын
@@Baypointify Yes, this is Bruno. Glad you liked the doc. You're the first to mention the nose-picking! John hasn't, nor David. Perhaps it's to do with trying to make an unvarnished film, though more likely it's about what is being said at the time... Those pencil drawings are exquisite. Cole Porter, very good. Both M and CP are geniuses in their own way, as is DH, all have the unconscious capacity to channel feeling.
@Baypointify 3 жыл бұрын
@@colugapictures7529 wow! so good to meet you Bruno! you made a great film which I've seen several times -- it gave me access to Hockney's daily life that would of course be impossible otherwise. and I know this was a huge effort to produce. I only wish you could do it again -- they say Hockney is in Caen now, as you must know. he has smoked cigarettes since birth and god knows how long he'll be on this earth. best wishes from Provincetown! xo
@colugapictures7529 3 жыл бұрын
@@Baypointify Thanks for the appreciation. I still have a faint hope to make a longer version, perhaps with a short postscript. Cheers, B
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