David Hockney

One of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century, David Hockney has been constantly working and evolving his work from the early 1960s to the modern day. Reaching his 80th birthday, Hockney ignites Tate Britain for his new exhibition title, David Hockney showcasing a varied selection of some of his most famous and loved works spanning multi mediums through photography, painting, printmaking and film, whilst hosting unseen new works. The visually stimulating and pleasuring colours and textures of Hockney’s Splash series was a highlight, whilst the complexity to his photo works drew the eye into an hypnotic ambience. As technologies advance so does Hockney, his works are ever evolving into the unknown, the invention of the tablet saw a new style to Hockney transforming from traditional to digital, his portraits painted with a stylus rather than a paint brush air a freshness and address artistic values of mixing the old with the new. This exhibition shows how the roots of each new direction lay in the work that came before. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these unforgettable works together, David Hockney shows at the Tate Britain.