WHAT A MAN, WHAT A LIFE...
When Marielle called me to ask if I wanted to see the David Hockney exhibition, I couldn’t believe me ears. Her tastes are not as modern as mine and Hockney is in my books one of the most interesting British artists of the 20th/21st Centuries. I had thought of going over to see this retrospective in London but then I heard it was coming to Paris. So, would wait. We were there at the opening of the exhibition. That was a first, even for me. What a pleasure it is to go into galleries without people - but it does not last for long…. I have been to a couple of retrospective of his work. The last was probably in London at the Royal Academy in 2011, but looking around, it seemed as if I would be meeting a totally new Painter. The exhibition was in chronological order and not too easy to do otherwise but follow the arrows. He was born Yorkshire in 1937 and received academic art training before entering the Royal Collage of Art in 1959. He met with Francis Bacon and was impressed and influ