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David Hockney White Porcelain
'I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.' David Hockney
In White Porcelain, David Hockney takes the classicist tradition of Still Life and reinvents it through modernist techniques and his colourist vision. The signed lithograph is part of Hockney’s pioneering 26 print Moving Focus series; the series breaks ground by segueing his favoured drawing, painting, photographic collage genres into the lithograph form, but in doing so the artist breaks traditional boundaries between high and low art culture to create his own masterpieces.In White Porcelain, Hockney takes the classic tropes of still life: he creates two round pots presumably made from the white porcelain of the title. Compared to the other prints in the Moving Focus series, White Porcelain is fairly sparse in composition, using monochrome pencil marks for the main image. The dual pots become the central focus of the print since they represent the only vivid colour tones of the picture: from one sprouts an elegant array of purple orchids contrasted by the opposite pot filled with a vibrant bunch of yellow tulips.The White Porcelain print is also truer to the naïve style of Hockney’s original drawings than many in this dramatic series, the background black and white gestures suggest spontaneity both in sweeping bold marks and in the quick dashes.Whilst the Moving Focus series explores Hockney’s lifetime fascination with space and perspective, White Porcelain is arguably the least distorted of the whole sequence: the table upon which the two flowerpots sit is slightly tilted but not enough to create the illusionary effect of many of the other prints in Moving Focus.White Porcelain in its stilled composition remains an ode to the beauty of flowers, to birth and blossom, and inevitable death and decay, to the essence of flowers as a symbol of love, hope and passion within the transient nature of eternal life. -
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