David Hockney

May 5, 1995 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

David Hockney is the most critically acclaimed and successful British painter of the century but in recent years his painting has taken a back seat to his work of photography. He has consistently based his art directly on his experiences and on his relationships with other people and translated his observations into visual terms.

Throughout the 1980’s Hockney became fascinated with the cinematic camera and his prime concern has been to investigate how our eyes collect data over a period of time and how this is then interpreted by the brain in terms of distance and three dimensional form. The film details the influence of the camera, enthralls us with his vivid multidimensional photo collage joiners, assembled collages and still photography innovations to moving