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David Hockney has always made the familiar feel newly seen. “Something More Old” brings together a focused selection of works that trace the artist’s return to classic subjects—portraiture, still life, landscape—while showing how radically he refreshes them through printmaking. Across swimming pools, sunlit views, and intimate interiors, Hockney turns everyday motifs into studies of perception: how light behaves, how color creates depth, and how memory shapes what we think we’re looking at. The result is work that feels immediate and contemporary, even when it’s rooted in art history and longstanding traditions.
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CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE"I instinctively knew I was going to like it, and as I flew over San Bernardino and saw the swimming pools and the houses and everything and the sun, I was more thrilled than I have ever been in arriving in any city".
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THE MUSE: Celia Birtwell"Portraits aren't just made up of drawing, they are made up of other insights as well. Celia is one of the few girls I know really well. I've drawn her so many times and knowing her makes it always slightly different."
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THE ART OF COPYING“But with these copying machines, I can work by myself — indeed you virtually have to work by yourself; there’s nothing for anyone else to do — and I can work with great speed and responsiveness. In fact, this is the closest I’ve ever come in printing to what it’s like to paint: I can put something down, evaluate it, alter it, revise it, all in a matter of seconds.’
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Something More Old underscores why Hockney’s work continues to resonate so powerfully with serious collectors: it balances reverence for tradition with an unrelenting curiosity about how we see the world now. By revisiting enduring subjects through evolving techniques, he demonstrates that innovation does not require abandoning the past—it requires looking at it differently. These works are not nostalgic; they are reaffirmations of painting’s vitality in contemporary culture. In Hockney’s hands, the “old” becomes expansive, experimental, and undeniably current—an enduring testament to an artist who has never stopped learning how to look.
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