“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Woolf, 1927
2025年2月5日 星期三
In the studio: Roberto Matta (1911~2002);David Hockney (b. 1937 love in touching intimacy.).何懷碩書房 The Artist in His Studio, Alexander Liberman (1912-99). 何懷碩書房
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David Hockney
This series of etchings by David Hockney shows love in touching intimacy.
They were made to illustrate the erotic poems of Greek-Egyptian writer C. P. Cavafy. Hockney greatly admired Cavafy’s ability to write openly and unapologetically about gay relationships.
Many of Hockney’s illustrations are based on intimate sketches of his friends, others were drawn from photographs. The backgrounds are based on a trip Hockney took to Beirut, Lebanon in 1966. The artist felt that Beirut’s cosmopolitan atmosphere made it the contemporary equivalent of Cavafy’s native Alexandria, Egypt.
Currently the etchings are on show at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France, in their exhibition, Evolution of the Idea of Intimacy.
David Hockney RA talks to curator Edith Devaney in his Los Angeles studio, just before his Royal Academy exhibition ‘82 Portraits and 1 Still-life’ in 2016.
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren(Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata]; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known asRoberto Matta, was one ofChile's best-knownpaintersand a seminal figure in 20th centuryabstract expressionistandsurrealistart.
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