London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2012 -- Hockney’s artistic career has spanned decades, and his work has moved through an astonishing range of phases. He is a continual innovator, and his skills do not lie merely in painting. He is also an adept photographer, draughtsman, stage designer, and printmaker. His latest exhibition, A Bigger Picture, comprises largely of work he has done in the past 8 years, and marks a striking shift in his painting style.

The sheer vibrancy and vivacity of these large canvas paintings is an ode to the countryside of Yorkshire; and trees as well as blossoming plants feature heavily.

Who is David Hockney the artist? And what makes a David Hockney paintings so distinctively his own, impossible to mistake for the work of any other artist? Hockney has had a very extraordinary life in which he has continually courted dissension. He is often considered one of the great modern rebels; from conscientiously objecting to declining a knighthood in 1990, he has never shied away from making strong statements, not merely with his art, but in his personal life as well.

This new exhibition is diverse in its scope; it does not merely consist of exhilarating Yorkshire landscapes. In addition to this, you can become entranced by some fascinating 18-screen videos of the Yorkshire landscape shot in both summer and winter. What makes such videos special is Hockney’s singular approach; they were concurrently shot from a number of different cameras fixed to different parts of his four-by-four. Such interactive installations invite debate and conjecture; what symbolism will you infer from these videos?

Why not also spend some time analysing The Sermon on the Mount series, named after the celebrated seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorrain’s composition of the same title. This series was motivated by Claude’s expert handling of the representation of space, which Hockney emulated.

The largest of the Academy’s galleries is home to The Arrival of Spring on Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (Twenty-Eleven), an installation comprising of an oil on thirty-two canvases, and, rather more uniquely, 51 iPad drawings printed on paper. 

Hockney embraces technological innovations to stretch the boundaries of what we call ‘art’ – his video installations and iPad sketches are evidence for this at this exhibition. Yet he still communes with nature on a very deep level, and this abounds in his landscape paintings.

You can sense his great love for the environmental world seeping out through every artwork of the 150 on display at the captivating showcase that is A Bigger Picture. View the artwork of a truly unique modern prodigy of art; visit this phenomenally successful Hockney exhibition for yourself.

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