Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Print works

The Hockney prints are on till 11 May and as near to a perfect hour or two of Englishness as you'll find, despite a fair few being made in the USA. My favourites were a series of colour prints, made when the artist was still living in Bradford.


Self-portrait, made in Yorkshire

I also loved Hockney's Rake's Progress, which covers the young artist's arrival in New York, the things he sees, his impressions of the place… This was in the Sixties, more than 40 years ahead of Grayson Perry's version.