“I know what keeps me going: it’s work,” the artist David Hockney says, in a new interview with The New Yorker’s art editor Françoise Mouly. “That’s what keeps most people going, isn’t it?”
The spring of 2020 was marvellous in northern Europe. It was a beautiful spring, and a lot of people noticed it, probably for the first time, because they were in one place. I mean, my friend Celia Birtwell—she’s the one in the “” painting—told me she never noticed the spring from beginning to end ever in her life before. She’s eighty years old.
While painting the seasons on his iPad, Hockney became intimately familiar with the trees on his four-acre property. I don’t feel isolated here, really. I’ve got this studio, I’ve got connections with everybody all over the world. So long as JP is here, I’m O.K. I know human relationships are the most important thing—they are. I mean, I’m an eighty-four-year-old smoker. How much longer do I have? Well, Picasso lived to be ninety-one. I know what keeps me going: it’s work. That’s what keeps most people going, isn’t it?Yes. You can smoke, drink, and do what you want if you’ve got curiosity.
I haven’t looked at those much. These are different; I know these are different. The earlier series was always the same chair—at least here there’s a different chair, sometimes. And in the “82” series I did each one in two or three days. And I began those with charcoal drawings. I don’t now. I just start painting.Yes, yes. Painting is holding brushes again. It’s different from the iPad. That’s why I wanted to go back to it as well. I mean, I am a painter, after all.I can’t stand that long.
I mean, it’s all about depiction. We’ve always made depictions, always. If you go back twenty, thirty thousand years, art is always a depiction of something. I’m sure the first man doing that—there was probably somebody else watching him. And that man might have grunted or somehow said, “I’m seeing an animal,” or something.
A moving picture isn’t three-dimensional, even if it’s got two dimensions and linear time. They say they want to make pictures in four dimensions, which would be like the real world.
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