Painter David Hockney’s Biggest Splash
Artist David Hockney is known for bright, flat paintings of Los Angeles and vivid English landscapes. His best-known painting — 1967's A Bigger Splash — shows a California swimming pool the moment after someone has jumped in. A tan diving board angles in from the bottom right and a lively white splash rises up from the aquamarine water.
"I spent longer on the splash than on any other thing in the painting," Hockney says. "I spent about a week painting it because it's painted with small brushes. ... I mean I didn't want to just take a brush and splash it like that. I wanted to paint it slowly, and I thought, then it contradicts the splash, really.”
From “Artist David Hockney Says the Drive to Create Pictures is Deep Within Us” by Susan Stamberg for NPR, 2016; Photo of Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967
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