Hockney at Tate Britain - last few weeks!

This celebration of the hugely popular Yorkshire artist David Hockney, who turns 80 this year, surveys six decades of his phenomenal output in painting, drawing, print, video and photography.
Closing in a few weeks' time, this uplifting exhibition, which spans Hockney's entire career, is arranged largely chronologically.
Beginning with his student days at the Royal College of Art when he experimented with abstraction, graffiti, codes and spatial ambiguity in his paintings, the show continues through 1960s California with his more observational style, based on clarity and geometry, with bright colours inspired by the warm climate, then to his naturalistic representations of the human figure of his 1970s acrylic works.
Hockney's fascinating drawings, many in crayon and pen and ink, which provide the bedrock for his art, are well-represented, as are his multi-faceted photographic collages. The sensuous landscapes of the Hollywood Hills painted in the 1980s & 90s, as well as those of Yorkshire and the Grand Canyon, fill the rooms with colour and his more recent multi-screen video works and iPad drawings reveal the intense diversification and seemingly endless experimentation of this much-loved artist.
David Hockney at Tate Britain until 29th May 2017