David Hockney

The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020

David Hockney, William Boyd, Edith Devaney

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Royal Academy of Arts
01 May 2021

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Drawing & drawings; Individual artists, art monographs

An uplifting celebration of spring and the power of art against lockdown: Hockney's new iPad drawings, in an intimate sketchbook format.

At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his new house, studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape on his iPad, a method of drawing he has been using for over a decade. Drawing outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney 'We need art, and I do think it can relieve stress,' he says. This uplifting publication produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts includes 116 of the new iPad drawings and shows to full effect Hockney's singular skill in capturing the exuberance of nature. The book begins with an interview with the show's curator, Edith Devaney, in which Hockney discusses his heralding of the spring.

AUTHOR: Edith Devaney is Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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During the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, David Hockney was in Normandy, France, and recorded the arrival of spring in exuberant iPad drawings .

Over a hundred new iPad drawings on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2021 .

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 27 March 20 June 2021

140 colour illustrations

By: David Hockney, William Boyd, Edith Devaney
Imprint: Royal Academy of Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 250mm,
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9781912520640
ISBN 10: 1912520648
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

William Boyd is the author of sixteen novels, among them A Good Man in Africa (1981), An Ice Cream War (1982), Any Human Heart (2002), Restless (2006) and Trio (2020) Edith Devaney is Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.