There is so much publicity on this event in the Netherlands that i feel obliged to spent a blog on this subject. The exhibition is on view until the 26th of May.
David Hockney is the most expensive living and Vincent van Gogh held the record for many years until his records were passed by Klimt and Matisse, but should an important van Gogh painting come to the market again, i am sure it will fetch a new record price for a painting. Of course this has nothing to do with the artistic values of both these artists and it looks like Hockney is heavily inspired by the van Gogh classics. This is not a bad case, but should you expect to see the magnificent Sixties paintings in this show, than you will be disappointed because the theme of this exhibition is van Gogh and the way David Hockney looks in his own way to the van Gogh subjects.
Good paintings, but certainly not great paintings….although…their size is sometimes a little bit too much.
Hockney – Van Gogh
Two Painters, One Love
Two painters, one love: Nature. David Hockney (1937) may live more than a century later than Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), however their vision of landscape is often similar. But what exactly does this nature mean to them? And how did Van Gogh’s landscapes inspire Hockney?
www.ftn-books.com has a nice selection of Hockney titles available
