David Hockney’s New Retrospective Opening at London’s Tate Britain Reminds Us that His Art is Timeless
David Hockney turns 80 this year, but that’s hardly slowed down the British painter. Instead, he’s redesigning the masthead of the Sun, dominating the field of iPad art, and preparing for what’s shaping up to be the Tate’s most popular exhibition ever, a massive retrospective opening next week in London that covers more than half a century of his work (20,000 advance tickets have already been sold). Starting from his steamy shower scenes of the early ’60s, the show stretches up to his current iArt landscapes, with plenty of paintings of swimming pools and his self-portraits along the way. None of it has aged a bit.
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David Hockney, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures),” 1972.
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David Hockney, “Model with Unfinished Self-Portrait,” 1977.
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David Hockney, “9 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon,” 1988.
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David Hockney, “Domestic Scene, Los Angeles,” 1963.
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David Hockney, “Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool,” 1966.
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David Hockney, “Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy,” 1968.
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David Hockney, “Garden,” 2015.
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David Hockney, “Garden with Blue Terrace,” 2015.
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David Hockney, “Hollywood Hills House,” 1981/1982.
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David Hockney, “A Lawn Being Sprinkled,” 1967.
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David Hockney, “Going Up Garrowby Hill,” 2000.
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David Hockney, “Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater,” 1970.
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David Hockney, “Red Pots in the Garden,” 2000.
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David Hockney, “Woldgate Woods, 6 & 9 November 2006,” 2006.
