He wouldn’t finish the drawing at this lightning rate but he could very rapidly fix some crucial relationships. There are certain things that you can do very, very quickly using it.” In two seconds, Hockney found, he could establish the basic colour and tone of a sky, and put in some faint clouds in three seconds. “The more I got into the iPad, the more I realised what a fantastic medium it is for landscape. Then he decided to fill the biggest gallery in his show with iPad drawings. Towards the end of the year, he began to print them out on a larger scale than the iPad screen. In early 2010, when the iPad was launched, Hockney quickly moved up to this larger tablet computer, and the prolific production of digitally-aided drawings continued: flowers, landscapes, still-life subjects. And my flowers last.” He also used this new medium to depict objects – a candle, for example, and a lamp – that, like the iPhone, glow with light.
“I draw flowers every day,” he said at the time, “and I send them to my friends, so they get fresh blooms every morning. The iPhone drawings were usually of what Hockney could see from his bed – the view through his window, the shutters, the bouquets that Hockney’s partner John put on the window sill.
#When did the bigger picture come out free
These images were tiny, loose, free and often ravishing. That year, he started sending a stream of images to the phones and email inboxes of his friends almost on a daily basis. In the winter of 2008-09, he bought an iPhone, and began to draw on it with his thumb, using an app called Brushes. It’s a fantastic opportunity, and I think I’ve responded to it.” “That’s what they were made for, that’s how the lighting was designed. “These are some of the best rooms in London to hang very grand paintings,” he says. It is a more unusual, indeed unprecedented, affair.Īlmost the entire space of the main galleries at Burlington House will be filled with recent work by the 74-year-old artist: much of it made within the past four years, a good deal in the past 12 months. Of course, Hockney has been an enormously prolific and celebrated painter for half a century, and much of his earlier work – the cool images of Californian life from the mid-1960s, the grandly naturalistic portraits of the late 60s and early 70s, the photo-collages of the 80s – has already passed into the art history books. Although a few earlier works are included to provide context, essentially this is the opposite of a career overview. From the Winter 2011 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA.ĭavid Hockney RA declares, “The great thing to say is that this is not a retrospective.” He is talking about his forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy, A Bigger Picture, and he is absolutely correct.
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