David Hockney is a phenomenally successful artist, who has also nurtured achievements in many fields other than painting; he is regarded as an eminent stage designer, photographer, draughtsman and printmaker.

London, England -- (SBWire) -- 02/16/2012 --His artistic work has defied conventional categorisation and classification; at different stages in his career he has moved seamlessly from more cubist works to intensely abstract paintings, from multiple perspective photographs to bleaker, darker expressionist work, at times recalling Bacon. This new David Hockney exhibition offers up his most recent work: paintings suffused with intensely vivid bursts of colour. Marvel at his mesmerising and distinctive homages to the Yorskshire countryside.

David Hockney is an intriguing artist in many ways. The very breadth of his creative abilities and the influence of his background inexorably exert themselves on to his artworks. Uniquely, Hockney was also born with synaesthesia, meaning that he sees synaesthetic colours when he is given some form of musical stimuli.

He has often courted controversy and invited contention; he was a conscientious objector, he declined a knighthood in 1990 (yet, interestingly enough, accepted an Order of Merit), and has protested at cutbacks in arts funding.

To put his incredible success and crowd-pleasing nature into perspective, his current exhibition, A Bigger Picture, sold four times as many advance tickets as that of The Real Van Gogh exhibition, which was in itself a record-breaker last year.

The 150 works on display at the Royal Academy’s Hockney exhibition are, in many cases, vast, impressive pieces, vivid and colourful evocations of nature. Many of the paintings, you will notice, include trees – indeed, a series of seven show trees from Wolgate Wood, each painting highlighting trees at a different time of year and all from the same vantage point.

One entire room is devoted to paintings of hawthorn blossoms in complete bloom, stunningly bedecking local roads. It seems that Hockney celebrates Yorkshire to such an extent that he idealises the landscape; he paints his own vision of Arcadia. Yet his paintings somehow still retain a realistic feel, and this, perhaps more than anything, attests to his great talent as a painter.

David Hockney’s photography is, you may claim, as highly regarded as his artwork, and his photography certainly makes itself felt in this exhibition. View the efforts of his experimentation with ‘joiners’, an innovative method whereby he took various photographs of a particular region as he was walking by and then merged these together. The viewer of these ‘joiners’ acquires the unusual sense that they are, in fact, moving through the space in which he had moved. It was largely between 1970 and 1984 that he experimented with such photography, and to striking effect.

Visit the David Hockney exhibition, A Bigger Picture, and marvel at the works of a man voted Britain’s most influential living painter. You will not find it difficult to see why he was bestowed with such an impressive accolade.

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