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The Wick - David Hockney, Grand Canyon I, 2017

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Grand Canyon I,
2017

David Hockney is one of few artists to have tackled the Grand Canyon. In 1982, in an effort, as he put it, to ‘photograph the unphotographable’ he produced a monumental photo-collage of the landmark comprising 60 images assembled in a grid. In the late Nineties, he returned to Arizona to capture the Grand Canyon in paint. ‘I wanted to paint it how I remembered it, with real colour and pigment, strong pure colour put right.’

The two resulting works, A Bigger Grand Canyon and A Closer Grand Canyon (both 1998), each feature 60 canvases executed in bright, Fauve-inspired hues. Since then, Hockney has returned to the Grand Canyon motif on numerous occasions. Grand Canyon I (2017), seen here, is one such brilliant example. Painted in reverse perspective on a hexagonal canvas, it exemplifies Hockney’s enduring interest in capturing three-dimensional space on the surface of a flat picture. The alluring canvas is currently on display for the first time in the UK as part of a new Hockney exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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