Along with his pool paintings, David Hockney also produced a series of swimming pool prints which are collectively known as the Pools series. In particular, through the lithograph medium Hockney was able to so brilliantly convey the watery hues and tones, adding washes to certain pieces that capture the fluid nature of the subjects.
Commonly associated with Hockney, swimming pools are perhaps the artist’s best known subject matter. A great chronicler of reality, Hockney, who moved to LA in the 60’s in search of the sharp light and shadows he had seen in Hollywood movies as a student, masterfully and vividly transmits the quotidian. Noticing that many around him had swimming pools due to the weather, Hockney’s fascination with pools began. Between 1964-71, Hockney made numerous paintings of swimming pools, and each painting attempted a different solution to the depiction of the continually changing surface of the water. Some of his early pool paintings contain an often naked male subject, viewed from behind, but his later ‘splash’ works are devoid of evident human presence such as Pool I (1978)and Lithograph of Water Made of Lines (1978).
Published by Tyler Graphics between 1978-1980, the series of works are both iconic and important. In the words of Director Acoris Andipa:
“Hockney, for me, is one of the finest living draughtsman certainly amongst British artists, if not the world. The sense of colour and perspective in these works is simply masterful. An example of the effortlessness that he employs in the series commonly referred to as pools, through his recording of how light and time changes or affects something as mundane as water is magical. Through his chronicling of reality with such a degree of intensity in colour, saturation and light one can see a great appreciation and elevation of the mundane. This is arguably why his artworks work so well on ipad drawings because of the transmission of light and his inherent skill.”
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