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David Hockney at the Royal Academy: 82 Portraits and One Still Life

Earlier this week members of the Innova Art team were invited to attend the patrons view of 82 Portraits and One Still Life. The latest exhibition from David Hockney features a riot of colour and a compelling theme. This is the first major exhibition by David Hockney at the Royal Academy since his Yorkshire landscapes show in 2012. Since then he has returned to his Los Angeles studio. This portrait series represents a return to a genre that has had a prominent place in his long career. The portraits in the exhibition were produced in a three day period over two years. David Hockney invited each sitter to his Los Angeles studio; every painting features the same chair and share backgrounds in various shades of blue. Saturated colours in the paintings invite viewers to immerse themselves in the images. Arranged in near chronological order of production, the exhibition space creates an intimate environment to view the paintings. Hockney describes the paintings as a ‘twenty hour exposure’, the maximum amount of time he felt he could ask from anyone. In total there are more than 90 portraits in this series, including some sitters who were painted twice. All produced since the summer of 2013, with just twenty hours dedicated to each one. Every sitter was invited to participate; they are family, friends and close associates of the artist. Describing his friends as his celebrities, Hockney has created a rare insight into his life and the respect he has for the people around him. Every painting started with a charcoal sketch on canvas to fix the pose in place. Hockney then used acrylic paint with a high gel content to ensure that he could work with the [...]

David Hockney at the Royal Academy: 82 Portraits and One Still Life2017-05-19T17:12:19+01:00

David Hockney at the Royal Academy: 82 Portraits and One Still Life

Earlier this week members of the Innova Art team were invited to attend the patrons view of 82 Portraits and One Still Life. The latest exhibition from David Hockney features a riot of colour and a compelling theme. This is the first major exhibition by David Hockney at the Royal Academy since his Yorkshire landscapes show in 2012. Since then he has returned to his Los Angeles studio. This portrait series represents a return to a genre that has had a prominent place in his long career. The portraits in the exhibition were produced in a three day period over two years. David Hockney invited each sitter to his Los Angeles studio; every painting features the same chair and share backgrounds in various shades of blue. Saturated colours in the paintings invite viewers to immerse themselves in the images. Arranged in near chronological order of production, the exhibition space creates an intimate environment to view the paintings. Hockney describes the paintings as a ‘twenty hour exposure’, the maximum amount of time he felt he could ask from anyone. In total there are more than 90 portraits in this series, including some sitters who were painted twice. All produced since the summer of 2013, with just twenty hours dedicated to each one. Every sitter was invited to participate; they are family, friends and close associates of the artist. Describing his friends as his celebrities, Hockney has created a rare insight into his life and the respect he has for the people around him. Every painting started with a charcoal sketch on canvas to fix the pose in place. Hockney then used acrylic paint with a high gel content to ensure that he could work with the [...]

David Hockney at the Royal Academy: 82 Portraits and One Still Life2017-05-19T17:12:19+01:00

FibaPrint® goes big in LA with Jim McHugh

Jim McHugh exibition opens this week As part of the LA Art Show 2015 the work SCRATCH by Jim McHugh will be on display, a massive 17 foot (5.2 meter) panorama of the recent graffiti installation titled "Scratch" at the El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA). Photographed over several months, this amazing photo collage features images of both graffiti artists and the walls they decorate and is printed on Innova FibaPrint® paper. "Scratch" was curated by David Brafman, curator of rare books at the Getty Research Institute, the photograph includes such acknowledged artists as Phantom, Axis, Cre8, Defer, Eyeone, Fishe, Miner, Gajin Fujita, Big Sleeps, Prime, Heaven, Trigz, Patrick Martinez, Enkone, and Doctoreye. Many other dedicated artists freely contributed to this monumental graffiti installation. The LA Art Show is open January 14-18 at the LA Convention Center. About Jim McHugh Photographer Jim McHugh has chronicled the Los Angeles art world for over three decades, publishing several books including "California Painters: New Work" with Henry Hopkins and "The Art of Light and Space" for Abbeville Press. His artist portraits were included in the Getty Museum's "Pacific Standard Time" in conjunction with Timothy Yarger Fine Art. Click here to see more of Jim's photographs. About the exhibit "Scratch" The Getty Research Institute's rare books collection includes a 16th Century liber amicorum (book of friends) manuscript illustrated by artists of the time. In 2013, The Getty Research Institute invited LA's leading graffiti artists to contribute to a single book, thus creating the Getty Graffiti Black Book. ESMoA and the Getty Research Institute subsequently invited Getty Black Book artists to turn ESMoA into an open black book. With the "Scratch" installation, graffiti and tattoo artists transformed the space into a cathedral [...]

FibaPrint® goes big in LA with Jim McHugh2017-05-19T17:12:31+01:00

FibaPrint® goes big in LA with Jim McHugh

Jim McHugh exibition opens this week As part of the LA Art Show 2015 the work SCRATCH by Jim McHugh will be on display, a massive 17 foot (5.2 meter) panorama of the recent graffiti installation titled "Scratch" at the El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA). Photographed over several months, this amazing photo collage features images of both graffiti artists and the walls they decorate and is printed on Innova FibaPrint® paper. "Scratch" was curated by David Brafman, curator of rare books at the Getty Research Institute, the photograph includes such acknowledged artists as Phantom, Axis, Cre8, Defer, Eyeone, Fishe, Miner, Gajin Fujita, Big Sleeps, Prime, Heaven, Trigz, Patrick Martinez, Enkone, and Doctoreye. Many other dedicated artists freely contributed to this monumental graffiti installation. The LA Art Show is open January 14-18 at the LA Convention Center. About Jim McHugh Photographer Jim McHugh has chronicled the Los Angeles art world for over three decades, publishing several books including "California Painters: New Work" with Henry Hopkins and "The Art of Light and Space" for Abbeville Press. His artist portraits were included in the Getty Museum's "Pacific Standard Time" in conjunction with Timothy Yarger Fine Art. Click here to see more of Jim's photographs. About the exhibit "Scratch" The Getty Research Institute's rare books collection includes a 16th Century liber amicorum (book of friends) manuscript illustrated by artists of the time. In 2013, The Getty Research Institute invited LA's leading graffiti artists to contribute to a single book, thus creating the Getty Graffiti Black Book. ESMoA and the Getty Research Institute subsequently invited Getty Black Book artists to turn ESMoA into an open black book. With the "Scratch" installation, graffiti and tattoo artists transformed the space into a cathedral [...]

FibaPrint® goes big in LA with Jim McHugh2017-05-19T17:12:31+01:00
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