David Hockney Dark Mist (M.C.A.T 123) For Sale

  • David Hockney Dark Mist

    David Hockney Dark Mist

    Facts | History | Meaning
    Catalogue Title:  Dark Mist 
    Year: 1973
    Size 89.0 x 72.4
    Medium:  Lithograph 4 aluminum plates
    Edition: Edition of 25 TP, signed and numbered in pencil lower right/left.
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  • David Hockney Dark Mist

     ‘there is no such thing as bad weather.’ David Hockney 

     

    David Hockney’s Dark Mist, 1973, is another of the artist’s dramatic prints from his innovative The Weather Series. Similarly to the other artworks in the series, Hockney merges lithograph with screenprint to create an altogether new art genre via these studies of the ephemerality of weather, ‘there is no such thing as bad weather.’
    Whilst he was inspired to create this series dedicated to the weather when he had moved to the sunny climes of California, full of vibrant landscapes and natural light, he ended up creating much of these harsher conditions in the famed Los Angeles based, Gemini studios.
     
    Dark Mist is a more dramatic version of Mist, in which Hockney takes classic Los Angeles symbolism: a row of lined palm trees. However, he distorts the dreamlike iconography of Californian sun, hopes and dreams through the rather industrial like building and the dense fog which engulfs the scene. The three palm trees become foreboding lined in thick black fog and fading out with each silhouette: converging ideas of modernity and urbanisation.
    In Dark Mist, Hockney intricately fuses East and West influences: he pays homage to the heavy woodblock printing traditions of famed 18th century Japanese artists, Hokusai and Hiroshige, yet amplifies the darkness of his compositions to create a timeless discourse on the forces of nature.
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