A Bigger Picture

The Davis Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy, called 'A Bigger Picture', is breathtaking. Ever since I was introduced to his Hockney's work I've been in love with it.This exhibition is amazing to see  partly because of the sheer size and ambition of the largest pictures, and partly because of the freshness and modern feel of the work.

'Technology has always contributed to art. The brush itself is a piece of technology, isn't it.'

Hockney has always been smart with technology. He used Polaroid cameras to create very organised yet fractures pictures when he lives in California. Now, in his native Yorkshire, he uses his iPad to take his work to a new level. Hockney is the first artist of not to use the iPad in his work.

'The iPad is becoming a fantastic tool for me...What is really good about it is its speed. No other medium using colour is as fast, meaning you can capture quick lighting effects like nothing else.' 

Hockney manages to see patterns in everything, from the squiggles in his swimming pools in California to the geometric leaves in these iPad drawings and oil paintings. Hockney takes everyday things and makes us look at them in a new way. On leaving the exhibition you will feel as though you've just been up to lived in Yorkshire for years! 

Aside from the iPad drawings and his paintings, there is one room with a screen split into two sets of 9. Hockney went around filming landscapes around Yorkshire with 9 cameras, moving them at different times, making them almost but not quite match up, much like his Polaroids. Two films are shown together and the effect is incredible. Normally at exhibitions the rooms playing films are almost empty, but there was barely any space in this room, every person, child and adult alike, were mesmerised by the enchanting forests! Although the woods were incredibly, my person favourites were films of dancers jumping from screen to screen, with an appearance of Hockney at the end of one!

If you live in or near London then I highly reccommend that you book a ticket to this exhibition. You definitely won't regret it!