David Hockney The Perspective Lesson (M.C.A.T 265) For Sale

  • David Hockney The Perspective Lesson

    David Hockney The Perspective Lesson

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    Catalogue Title:  The Perspective Lesson
    Year: 1984
    Size 76.2 x 55.9
    Medium:  Lithograph 4 aluminum plates
    Edition: Edition of 50 TP, signed and numbered in pencil lower right/left.
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  • David Hockney The Perspective Lesson

    ‘Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvellous place. You have to look and to work. That’s exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That’s what you need.’ David Hockney 

    The Perspective Lesson, 1984, is one of the most offbeat of Hockney’s images in the groundbreaking, Moving Focus series, which at first seems misplaced but becomes more beguiling with each viewing. The Perspective Lesson is also illustrative of Hockney’s rich knowledge of art history, his humour and his ability to create new dialogue within his own artistic practices.
    In The Perspective Lesson, as with Two Pembroke Chairs (and various others in the Moving Focus series) Hockney utilises the simple chair from which to frame the whole print narrative. Infact in The Perspective Lesson, there are two wicker chairs which mirror each other: one is situated in the middle of the floor and the other is in a print on a wall in front of it but is covered by a bold red cross.
    The simple image of a wicker chair is immediately reminiscent of the famed wicker chair iconography of old master painter, Van Gogh, yet Hockney imprints his own rebellious interpretation by skewering the viewer’s perspective, distorting the classic proportions of the chair. Both chairs are contrastive: one is covered in a busy pattern situated on a floor pattern that creates an illusionary effect to a viewer. The other is a naïve, black and white composition that is immediately slashed through by this graphic red cross.
    The narrative or any context behind this image is never conveyed by Hockney, we are left to imprint our own meaning onto his strangely absorbing artwork that illustrates the artist’s innate ability to transcend the simplest of motifs into something visionary.
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