Jun 12
David Hockney ‘California’, 1965. Private Collection. “I never thought the Swimming Pool Pictures were at all about mere hedonist pleasure. They were about the surface of the water, the very thin film, the shimmering, two-dimensionality.
“I had become interested in the more general problem of painting the water, finding a way to do it. It is an interesting formal problem, really, apart from its subject matter; it is a formal problem to represent water, to describe water, because it can be anything -it can be any color, it’s movable, it has no set visual description. I just used my drawings for these paintings and my head invented.” - - - DAVID HOCKNEY -
