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Some of the earliest paintings, heavily codified, reflect his desire for the singer Cliff Richard. Hockney in the 1960s was making work on subjects he knew and cared about – primarily being a young gay man when you really couldn’t shout about it. “If you’re an artist, if you’re wanting to be an artist or if you’re interested in David Hockney in any way, you will surely think these are absolutely beautiful.”
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“These are some of the best examples of figure drawing that people could ever hope to see,” said Bukantas. On display at the Walker are 12 prints bought by the Arts Council Collection in 1966. Hockney loved Cavafy’s direct and simple poems about doomed homosexual love, and even went to Alexandria and Beirut, where many of the poems are set, to get in the mood.
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The show includes a series of etchings from 1966 that the artist made in response to the poetry of Constantine P Cavafy, which he adored. “I find them quite exciting, and one of the things we wanted to do was take people back, away from the big, colourful trees and the iPad drawings to where Hockney started out.” “There is such a lot of energy in his early paintings,” said curator Ann Bukantas. David Hockney: a portrait of the artist as a gay manĮxhibition at Liverpool’s Walker art gallery shows almost 40 early works that explore sexuality of celebrated British artistĪn exhibition celebrating the early work of David Hockney that explores the artist’s sexuality and includes a painting of his art school pin-up, Cliff Richard, opens on Friday at Liverpool’s Walker art gallery.Īlmost 40 works have been brought together for the exhibition, which show what a powerful force the Bradford-born artist was from a young age.