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David Hockney has always treated “new” as a way of seeing rather than a style. In Something More New, that impulse is distilled into works made with the iPad—images that feel immediate and effortless, yet are built with the same discipline that runs through his career: looking hard, returning often, and letting time do its work. What appears simple at first glance opens into something richer—layered colour, shifting light, and the quiet insistence that perception can still surprise us.
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Woldgate, East Riding, Yorkshire, UK 54.0816° N, 0.2937° W"East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvellous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual."
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Yosemite National Park, California, USA 37.8651° N, 119.5383° W"I love California; everything is so artificial."
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Normandie, France (a place called home) 48.8799° N, 0.1713° E“I draw flowers every day on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning”.
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Ultimately, Something More New affirms that for David Hockney, innovation is inseparable from attention. Whether observing a quiet country lane in Yorkshire, the vast drama of Yosemite, or the intimate order of his studio, Hockney reminds us that the act of looking—truly looking—is endlessly renewable. The technology may evolve, but the intention remains constant: to capture time as it unfolds and to translate lived experience into color, rhythm, and space. In bringing these works together, the viewing room reveals not just a master embracing new tools, but an artist who continues to expand how we see, proving that “new” is not a departure from tradition, but its natural continuation.
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