Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy

Ho preso questo libro per soli 10 euro, seconda mano, condizioni eccellenti! E arrivato in tempo per farne un regalo. In libreria costava 29 euro! Sono molto soddisfatta!

This is an inspirational book about an artist who continues to experiment and innovate ... even in his 80s! David Hockney's paintings in Normandy are simply beautiful. A joy to behold, contemplate and learn from.

I would have appreciated a book with only plates of paintings. The text is not adding much value.

This book is written and as series of exchanges of ideas between Martin Grayford as interviewer and David Hockney the master artist. It’s title suggests a guy holed up in the north of France during The original Covid outbreak but the book is so much more - it is like being in the middle of a conversation between two Oxford dons of art history dropping quotes and ideas from many great artists and writers to express the feelings they have about art in general and about Mr Hockney’s new works illustrated throughout the book in particular (many of which were created on an iPad!). At the end of day the book tells us that what it takes to be an artist is a fascination with everything - or at least one thing (a la Monet’s Lilly pond or Cezanne’s mountain) and to draw or paint what you are fascinated with all the time. Discipline and constant work are what Mr Hockney shows us. As Mr Grayford states Hockney has a “driving fascination with pictures” and the urge to paint them “differently and better” than anyone else - even himself. A surprising, informative and easy-moving book through which Mr Hockney gives us a lesson (as Martin Grayford states) “not only in how to see, but also in how to live”.

Great Book. Highly recommended

This book is a marvel. While many of us were paralyzed by the pandemic, Martin Gayford and David Hockney made the absolute most of a very tough situation and collaborated to put together one of the most important books concerning art and its making that have ever been written. Never before has the the creative process been more deftly described and demystified. Both Gayford’s and Hockney’s pure enthusiasm for art, its creation and appreciation of others’ work is utterly infectious, intellectually fulfilling and life affirming. Alone, the insight we gain in Hockney’s daily schedule, the staggeringly prolific output during the spring of 2020, during which one magnificent iPad painting after another appeared, is a road map for the kind of sensational creative possibilities that exist for those above 80. To sit in on the Hockney’s and Gayford’s wide ranging, affectionate chats is to know what deep friendship is all about. The book is brilliant, accessible and often funny, without being remotely pretentious. Most highly recommended for any and everyone interested in creativity. Written during the worst of times, the defiantly joyous Spring Cannot Be Cancelled should be on the required reading list of any institution that teaches any aspect of Art.

Il display a colori dei photo è molto comodo sul dispositivo ios📱, ma deve essere acquistato prima attraverso una ricerca Kindle, non l'app mobile. E il prezzo è un po costoso, anche più alto dei libri di carta.

Les aventures d’Hockney en France