❚ 1983 – “Have you been to the cubism exhibition at the Tate?” David Hockney enthuses during a trip to London from his home in Los Angeles. “I’ve been seven times! Suddenly I see cubism differently, more clearly.” My interview with probably Britain’s leading contemporary artist becomes an impromptu tutorial for me in which the influential painter tests his new ideas.
It is extraordinary that this fortnight he spent in London in 1983 is omitted from the artist’s official life story. So now in the week of his death aged 88, do read my revealing article based on three long tape-recorded conversations with Hockney, plus my own photos. . . here –
➢ Previously at Shapers of the 80s: Britain’s favourite painter discovers a truer way of seeing, with help from Proust
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣ 