tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post8755321831631657981..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: David Hockney's Cameraworks - Footnote to Cubism??Curtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-17325013598509264472014-02-17T01:38:26.013-08:002014-02-17T01:38:26.013-08:00David Hockney has always been interested by scener...David Hockney has always been interested by scenery and the impact that light and the changing seasons have on them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.waterman.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Offer Waterman & Co.</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265923530447158364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-35099078056592288582010-06-18T12:27:10.811-07:002010-06-18T12:27:10.811-07:00?WHAT makes "you" think
?that I don'...?WHAT makes "you" think<br />?that I don't ?'get'/understand<br />?what David Hockney means<br /><br />I mean: It is obvious all about theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-32136004317699406132010-06-18T10:52:34.975-07:002010-06-18T10:52:34.975-07:00'scuzi hasty editing. er, non-editing. there&#...'scuzi hasty editing. er, non-editing. there's one other possible connection (tho' the Hockney would have to confirm---maybe you or Official Beat Poet Kirby O could put in a call)--Aldous Huxley lived in Pearblossom for some time--he had asthma, I believe, and a doctor told him the high desert--at that time quite desolated-- would be good for his lungs and breathing...but now busy fast-growing area. 138 has like one of highest fatality rates of any road in CA as well--.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-63478910838609812602010-06-18T10:48:06.832-07:002010-06-18T10:48:06.832-07:00Is this just a screwed-up collage of a plain photo...<i>Is this just a screwed-up collage of a plain photograph, or an interesting rearrangement of reality, which tells us something new and interesting about an otherwise blank vision?</i><br /><br />Not sure, but I get the sense Mssr Hockney was doing a sort of "stoopid Americanisch" thing with the Hiway 138 photo-collage--trash, bland eastside LA county landscape, ugly signs, highway. <br /><br />138's a sort of classic noir road, used in many tv shows and flicks --but you don't really get that from the photo. For that matter, that area --near Pearblossom, and the foothills of the San Gabriels--is quite scenic in places--tho was with much of eastside LA county quite impoverished in areas. <br /><br />But from Hockney's Benz (or is it Bentley), you don't much of a sense of the high desert (or the ..socio-economic conditions either). He's a talented decorator of sorts, but I think overrated.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-60037607657708377172010-06-18T09:35:39.386-07:002010-06-18T09:35:39.386-07:00Steven:
Might Hockney's photo-collages be a c...Steven:<br /><br />Might Hockney's photo-collages be a crude version of what a compound eye actually sees?<br /><br />(Actually, with the time element, that's only half true.)Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-38860524527633150022010-06-18T09:33:27.444-07:002010-06-18T09:33:27.444-07:00Kirby:
I'll go you a step further. What Ashb...Kirby:<br /><br />I'll go you a step further. What Ashbery and Hockney have in common is an attitude towards reality--and art--which is essentially, profoundly, trivial. <br /><br />How can something be "profoundly trivial"? Perhaps what I'm getting at is that the objectification of experience which both men accomplish, puts us at a remove from reality which is at bottom a form of negligent, or insolent, play. A lot of great art is indeed playful, but it has a serious underlying purpose.<br /><br />I'm never sure with either of these two that there is ever any underlying purpose. Often, irony, and contempt, and boredom underlie their investigations. This isn't something you would say about Da Vinci, or Tolstoy. They always cared deeply about everything they practiced.<br /><br />Lest you assume that by saying this, I denigrate either figure, you'd be wrong. Ashbery is a major figure in the history of American poetry, and likely to stay that way for a very long time (though more on the strength of his earlier work). I don't know enough about Hockney's prospects for immortality, but I do think his work very diverting, and would not mind having a piece of his in my livingroom--which may be the ultimate compliment.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-90583023287924856092010-06-18T06:38:37.747-07:002010-06-18T06:38:37.747-07:00I link Hockney and Ashbery: a lot of fun, no conte...I link Hockney and Ashbery: a lot of fun, no content.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-89368456159083192892010-06-17T21:45:48.163-07:002010-06-17T21:45:48.163-07:00The Hockney photo-collages play better at a distan...The Hockney photo-collages play better at a distance or, as here, at greatly reduced sized reproductions. <br /><br />Up close, they hit me as mezzo-mezzo.<br /><br />I think they are "about" the limitations of the camera -- what's seen through the view-finder -- compared to what they eyes take in. It takes (choose your nuumber) of exposures to approximate what the eyes see all at once.Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.com