In the past decade, having returned to England after years on the California coast, David Hockney has focused his attention on landscapes and portraits, as well as still lifes, all the while maintaining his fascination with digital technology. The resulting work is an extravagance of colour and ligh[...]
Hockney har søkt etter gamle malermesteres hemmeligheter, hvordan de var i stand til å skildre verden rundt seg så presist og levende. I denne boken undersøker han hovedverkene i kunsthistorien, og avslører sannheten om hvordan kunstnere som Caravaggio, Velázquez, van Eyck, Holbein, Leonardo o[...]
Demonstrates how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established.[...]