Martin gayford david hockney biography
Martin gayford david hockney biography
David hockney pop art.
New Book – How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)!
I’m a writer, mainly about art and jazz.
Recent books include Venice: City of Pictures, Spring Cannot be Cancelled, Shaping the World (co-authored with the Sculptor Antony Gormley), In Pursuit of Art, Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures: from Cave to Computer Screen (co-authored with David Hockney) and Rendez-vous with Art, co-written with Philippe de Montebello, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
My other books all scrutinize the working process of great painters: nine weeks in the life of Vincent van Gogh; seven years of John Constable’s romance with his wife-to-be; around 250 hours which I spent sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud; a series of dialogues exploring painting, landscape, space, time and perception with David Hockney; and a biography of Michelangelo Buonarrotti.
Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that is still vigorously