David Hockney celebrates 80 years with a retrospective in the Uk – Terra Mexico

The Tate Britain from this city presents a retrospective of the british artist David Hockney, who celebrated 80 years of age in July, with a prolific career that includes painting, photography, drawing and video.

With its characteristic lenses bottom of the bottle and his bleached blonde hair, the English artist was in the 60′s a student inspired by the bohemian life of london pop culture, which allowed him to develop a style of their own and their first references to homosexuals.

The prolific career of Hockney is marked by his stay in Los Angeles, California, where he moved in 1964 and created his famous paintings of swimming pools as “A Bigger Splash” (1967) and “Peter getting out of the pool Nick” (1966).

Reflections in the pool, erotic allusions to his own sexuality, portraits of two people, pictures of the four seasons, his paintings of large-scale forests of Yorkshire, and his first self-portrait, marked the career of the eccentric artist.

“it Has been a pleasure to come back to see the pictures that were painted decades ago, including my first paintings. Many of them are old friends to me,” said Hockney about his own exposure.

The veteran british artist -born in 1937 in Yorkshire, north of England – made its appearance on the cultural scene in london as a student of arts with their paintings of the “Love” of 1960 and 1961, which reflect a language of abstract expressionism in an autobiography homoerótica.

Hockney also painted in the 60′s to friends and artists known as the famous couple from california formed by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, which is considered one of his portraits, the most emblematic.

The curator, Chris Stephens, told Notimex: “you can see the consistency throughout his career, how he sees Hockney the world and how it tries to reflect that world in his paintings with a humanistic vision”.

Hockney challenged the protocols of the painting of their time to create their reflections in pools of Angels, The bodies half-naked boys and portraits that move between what is artificial and what is real.

The 12 rooms show the work of the artist, who is inspired by friends, lovers, and his Los Angeles home, the forests of Yorkshire, and everyday life to create a kind of art “subversive and fearless”, noted Stephens during a tour of the displays.

The paintings of California are notable for the bright colors of the blue sky, the palm trees, the light and open spaces, while that of England was characterized by the desolate landscapes of the hills of Yorkshire and the lush forests.

For the first time presented two paintings of the garden of Hockney in Los Angeles, created specifically for this exhibition, “the Garden #3″ (2016) and “Two Pots on the Terrace” (2016) in bright blue color that contrasts with the lush green undergrowth of banana trees and palm trees.

One of his masterpieces “The arrival of Spring” (2013) is a series of 25 charcoal drawings which together with his self-portrait (1954) are an oasis of calm in the middle of the palette of colors chillantes and cakes that characterizes Hockney.

The work of more than 60 years, encompassing abstract expressionism, naturalism, parody, self-reflection and the effects of the light.

The Tate gallery in the centre of London pays homage with this retrospective that encompasses the different phases of the british artist, considered to be one of the most influential of the TWENTIETH century.