Remembering David Hockney: Jack Hazan's 1973 documentary portrait of the artist's life and work
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A reflective piece on the life and work of David Hockney, the Yorkshire-born painter who recently passed away. The article focuses on Jack Hazan's 1973 intimate documentary portrait of Hockney, exploring how the film captured the artist at work, at play, and through emotional turmoil. It examines Hockney's iconic LA swimming pool paintings from the 1960s and his unique ability to evoke summer's languorous feeling, while also discussing how Hazan's film strangely anticipated modern ways of consuming biographical content about artists.
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· 3 pulledTo stand in front of one of these huge, cerulean canvases is to be transported to another world: one of swimming pools and sliding doors; blue skies and bare bottoms; tan lines and tight-fitting shirts.
It seems oddly fitting that David Hockney's death should coincide with a heatwave. After all, nobody can evoke the languorous feeling of summer quite like the Yorkshire-born painter.
Jack Hazan's 1973 intimate portrait of the late David Hockney at work, play, and through emotional turmoil, strangely anticipated how we consume…
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