A Lot Of My Fans Are Women- David Hockney outtake 6/80
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- This was a surprising moment: I hadn’t made a connection between his art and female taste, but David had. The question, his answer, his surprise and amusement, is left tantalizingly in the air. Is it the Hockney space that attracts women? And is there such a thing as female taste anyway? Perhaps it’s enough to say that David had noticed that women accounted for a substantial amount of his fan mail.
A related aside: I entered into some interesting correspondence with buyers of my DVD on Amazon, mostly Hockney fans, but some had come across it by accident or had been lured in by the customer reviews. I haven’t conducted any type of gender survey myself, but I did notice that the women customers fell into two groups: those who found David a charming and loveable father figure and those who found him controlling, almost threatening. I rationalized these polar reactions in terms of Hockney serving as a kind of litmus paper, a measure perhaps of a daughter’s personal experience of fatherly authority.
A film-making aside: talking to David on camera had its challenges. Sometimes he was on auto-pilot and would go off on a well-oiled hobbyhorse, repeating things he’d already said almost word-for-word (sometimes useful when editing, since you could select the best version). And sometimes he could take you utterly by surprise.
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This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim.
Watch the full film here: vimeo.com/2248...
Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, A Bigger Picture captures Britain’s most beloved painter at work. David Hockney’s return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood - outside, in all weathers, through the seasons - culminates in the largest picture ever made outdoors. It’s an inspiring story of a painter in creative dialogue with nature and photography, and a revealing portrait of Britain’s most popular and celebrated artist.
“This wonderful film … will be of lasting importance for future generations who want to understand Hockney’s art.” Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4
“Bruno Wollheim’s portrait of this forthright magus is an unqualified, life-enhancing joy from start to finish.” - The Sunday Times
“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.” - The Times, London.
“As gently hypnotic and fulfilling as one of Hockney’s own works.” - Time Out
“This impressive documentary is almost cinematic in its scope… both majestic and intimate” - The Observer
Watch the full documentary here: vimeo.com/2248...
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He's gentle, quietly spoken, sensitive, probably kind...all qualities that women like. I am a teacher and notice that all the gay guys at school always have lots of women friends...jus' sayin'...!
I find the essence of David very refreshing...and it shows in his images ..
He is an intelligent, curious and honest man..with a lovely sense of humour.. and down to earth... .very sexy qualities..David is intriguing and I understand a lot of what he thinks about.. I personally find something very attractive in him...it's his persona..... I'm glad he's in the world and his ideas in his work are very intriguing.... I'm very happy to be his audience ...it makes my life more bearable. 🌹
Being a very feely person, it's sometimes hard for me to use words to express my feelings, but you did a great job in putting words on most of what I feel about Hockney's personnality and art😊👏!
I think women appreciate beauty more than men 🤷♀️
I love the way you talk, the way you see and your art never fails to inspire me.
I wish I get the chance to meet you in person.
because he is happy
It’s his honesty and purity of painting. Well that’s my tuppence worth.
A class act
I know he left a long time ago, been so many places and had such great success; but there's a lot of Bradford he carries around with him.
Yes, you can take a boy out of Bradford but you can't.... Also his return to Yorkshire connected him much more to his roots, though having said that he was always someone remarkably unaffected by fame and its trappings. One of his favourite jokes is a quote from his great late friend Henry Geldzahler: I need fame like a moose needs a hat rack.