Looking Back: Pat Gilmour's 1970 Review of David Hockney's First Major Retrospective
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Pat Gilmour
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A look back at Pat Gilmour's 1970 review of David Hockney's first major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, when the artist was only 32. The article describes Hockney's wry, humorous style through the lens of a specific painting featuring a cougar and vulnerable figures, highlighting how Hockney playfully subverts the static nature of visual art with impossible movement and self-cancelling irony.
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Thus with wry humour, having created the impossible-movement in a static art – Hockney cancels it with a
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