An Analysis Of Large Interior By David Hockney

Have you ever been in a living room painted in all different colors? This idea is represented in David Hockney’s painting “Large Interior”, and is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. David Hockney is an American but British born artist who was born in 1937 in Bradford, England. England is also the country where he completed his education. In 1953-57 he attended Bradford College of Art. Eventually his career brought him to Hollywood, California, where he lived for 40 years. It was during that time when he painted this special painting. Although he is big fan of Picasso, he has not limited his own techniques and style in the cubist way, but rather he applies a new way of creating art by using modern technology. In 2011 in The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art for the first time he exhibits, created on his iPad a printed art collection, called “Me Draw on iPad”. Although this painting is not part of his new art it is fascinating and astonishing. “Large interior” is a painting where Hockney presents a cubist vision and different geometric shapes by using oil, paper and ink on canvas. The word “interior” in the title of this painting has a very powerful meaning and suits the painting itself. Literally it means to be “located on the inside of something” as if the artist challenges the viewer to look inside himself and wonder what he would find there. Is he large enough for some beautiful art? The painting itself presents a modern furnished living room without human presence. The viewer’s attention is captured in the middle of the painting but seems like he continues to explore every single element of this imaginary living room. The fireplace, the floor, the walls and all the shapes, which construct the cei...

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...ant objects in the artist’s painting are the sculpture, the painting on the wall, and the draft above the fireplace, as they are various examples of the modern art .The presence of flowers in a vase and the plate with fruits on the tables speaks of being close to nature, bringing nature inside of our living space and seeking harmony and healthy living. Art should influence the aspects of our life, should make us been better, should bring us to the higher level of humanity and should fulfill our personality. The drawings, the paintings and the sketches are going to be created always, the same way, the way new technologies are going to be invented always. In the article titled “David Hockney’s iPad art”, by Martin Gayford, he writes: “but drawings, like songs, Hockney believes will always be with us: it is only the means of making and delivering them that will change.”