David Hockney "Self Portrait, 22nd November 2021"Acrylic on canvas 36 x 30"© David Hockney. Photo Credit: Jonathan Wilkinson
Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction
Tue 15 March 2022 - Sun 28 August 2022
The Fitzwilliam Museum & The Heong Gallery
Through both traditional and cutting-edge ways of making art, the exhibition explores Hockney’s obsession with how we see the world, and how our world of time and space can be captured on the surface of a flat picture.
In his use of cameras, digital drawing, the iPad, and digital film, Hockney follows a tradition of creative experiments with optical devices that goes back from Ingres’ proposed use of the camera lucida to Canaletto’s camera obscura and to the birth of Renaissance naturalism in the 15th century.
In The Fitzwilliam Museum’s picture galleries, Hockney’s drawings, paintings and digital artworks are shown in a series of provocative encounters with works by artists including Claude Monet, John Constable and Andy Warhol.
The display at The Heong Gallery charts Hockney’s pioneering modern experiments from the 1960s to the present day in bringing hand, eye, and optical instruments together, with the iconic Grand Canyon I (2017) among the many glorious and daring works on display.
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
Enquiries: Fitzwilliam Museum Email: fitzmuseum-enquiries@lists.cam.ac.uk Telephone: +441223332900
Timing
In person
10:00am-5:00pm Tuesday-Sunday every week from Tuesday 15 March 2022 until Monday 29 August 2022
10:00am-5:00pm on Tuesday 15 March 2022
All times
Tue 15 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 16 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 17 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 18 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 19 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 20 March 2022 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
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