David Hockney Forever: As many more gifts to the world as beautiful art

The world artists , who take the top places in very different national and international rankings, differ, especially in one of artists who "just do good art" .

They are not only inspired themselves, they are also inspired by what penetrates the public with what is going to work, also the world and posterity; beyond the actual, physical art. So also David Hockney ; He leaves us a stimulating overall package in several ways:

David Hockney discovered and used his talents

David Hockney shows the people in the world who have projected something with their life, how a normal person can use everything that offers a modern social democracy to its citizens: as a child of normal parents, he managed to be accepted on the finest art college of England .

visiting the Royal College of Art in London was not allowed because there was certainly born fellow students from the upper class who could not do little with normal people like Hockney. But Hockney was looking for his circle, a number of free-thinking students with (abroad) experience.

However, David Hockney was able to develop his life plan under two favorable conditions that are not available to everyone then and today: he was able to try out and discover his talents (and he found a great talent, but this did not make things easier, normally talented people with several, not such pronounced talents are more open).

Talential research from the earliest youth can only succeed if the parents clear the way (which does not mean that the child is stuffed in 25 pre-school courses by insufficiently paid educators with knowledge, but that it does not get the opportunity for self-discovery and answers to many questions, in our social system for parents no easy task).

David Hockney was lucky with his parents: both were normal people from the working class and yet the decisive tick differently. David Hockney's father Kenneth only worked as an accountant and then as head of his own accounting company, mother Laura was a seller z .. B. at the London Rubber Company, until she was more than sufficient with the upbringing of the five children born between 1931 and 1939.

But father Kenneth Hockney was also a talented amateur artist who recognized and promoted the son's artistic talent. And he was committed to the world in which he lived - social campaigns and critical letters to Stalin or other threatening personalities were always more important to him than daily budget stuff.

Mother Laura took care of the budget, incidentally; She was more interested in familiarizing her children with the basics of a successful lifestyle and strengthening their backs for the important decisions of life. Here, too, the methodist, who was still in itself, acted with an unexcited Laissez-faire posture and the generosity of the mind that others do not marry and do not impose anything; For example, the strict vegetarian was happy to prepare meat dishes for the rest of the family.

So nobody had anything in the Hockneys that Klein-David dawned through the city with the painting utensils in the stroller, so all five young stalls already set high goals in primary school age, so all five children received grants for visiting the high school. Education with respect for the child is brave and certainly not always easy, but success should agree with the parents Hockney:

Son David soon made international headlines ; His big brother Paul founded his own accounting company (and took over David's accounting), became city councilor in Bradford's suburb of Idle and then Mayor of Bradford for the Liberal Democrats.

The brothers John and Philip emigrated to Australia and made a career there, one as a graphic artist and exhibition designer, the other with the production of large trucks (today 3 factories). The sister, Margaret, worked as a nurse in the most remote parts of the world before she came back to Yorkshire to found her own Clinic for Natural Medicine in Bridlington, Laura Hockney also moved there after her husband died in 1978.

David Hockney was in close contact with his family , visited her in the Old World and also received the parents more often in California. Laura Hockney became the inspiration of many of his pictures, took part in most of the receptions of the famous son in old age and in a wheelchair and understood well with his sometimes somewhat unusual friends. David Hockney was often in Bridlington, a number of wonderful pastels in the Heidelandscape around the seaside resort are among the most beautiful paintings in his old -age work; He was with his mother when she died in May 1999 at the age of 98.

If you have to develop your talents without a friendly boost, it is certainly harder, but you can get a part of this friendly push from the older David Hockney: David Hockney has prevailed throughout his life, always non -violent, always charming and in a good mood. He just did his thing without worrying too much about what any critics think of it -

I paint what I want, when I want and where I want. "

is a really typical croissant quote.

The average person may take a long time until he can say: "I work what I want when I want and where I want." , People of the older generation have often only reached this stage of freedom with the pension, and the critics are often frustrated teachers and revised authorities, whose overcoming it takes a lot of friendly insolence á la Hockney ...

But David Hockney was and is not exactly touched by the serious critics of serious art with velvet gloves: his work is too good, too good in a good mood, too beautiful and colorful his pictures (and he is still stubbornly classified as a pop art artist who he is not and never). So it is never easy, but it is worth commitment to meaning in life:

David Hockney used his time sensibly

Hockney is described as a job. He was certainly too, but definitely not overly. He is said to have created about 2,000 paintings, but in the not very short period from 1961 to the present day. Around 2,000 paintings in 58 years take almost 3 pictures a month, including all other activities from stage design to book research enough time to really finishes each picture and also recharge your batteries for new ideas.

Of course? For artists maybe, and also for many other people in professions in which work is being creatively worked. Many parents still prohibit their children like this today because they are associated with too much uncertainty ... While all other professions are also becoming increasingly insecure.

The - already terrifyingly large - part of the people who, depending on the relationship of dependency, does senseless work without any possibility of developing, is growing tremendously. The part of the people who, in such small and narrow -minded employment relationships, precisely the bare essentials for survival or not even earn, also grows.

With every shipping by dealers and freight forwarders who have a shearing of tax payments and basic needs of employees, a few more people get into unfree employment relationships; With every apartment that is illegally rented, a few apartment seekers sink the chance to find an affordable apartment and lose their jobs for hotel employees; With every hospital and nursing home, which focuses on satisfying shareholders and not to keep and keep the old and sick health, a few more people are worn out who work for the community (and are subsequently deprived of the ability to design their lives).

And of course the individual is responsible for who else? The state only directs everything in a dictatorship (then experience has shown that it is not for the good of all citizens). In fact, the citizen can do the most, much faster and more immediate than a politician (who has to take into account all interests in new rules for everyone in new rules): He can simply stop ordering things from companies that do not pay taxes and courier drivers, he can be registered by the landlord of the holiday apartment and he can be politically committed to human medicine; He could even do all of this before the downward spiral also captures it.

David Hockney is an example of what a hard -working and worker person could achieve before inserting this downward spiral, so that he is also a reminder for more commitment to exploitation, neglect and any narrow -minded tendencies.

David Hockney could encourage creative people to pursue promising ideas with some persistence - even if not always $ 90 million (below), reasonable ideas often prevail at some point. Until then, these ideas grow, with very advanced ideas, the time of the idea must first grow ... Development people who have not yet found their way or have not yet been able to enforce can look at the curiosity at David Hockney - what Hockney has done like all great artists.

However, if you strive for development today and have to start it under less favorable conditions as David Hockney, you have a great advantage: If you have learned to deal with commercial/ideologically motivated disinformation, you can access human knowledge on the Internet. To avoid the nonsense piled up before the knowledge is certainly not easy, and here too David Hockney is a good role model that was never limited to the mainstream information sources:

David Hockney uses knowledge of his time, from the past to the latest developments

David Hockney used the knowledge available at his time. The whole knowledge that he has not been satisfied with reading the assessments of his more or less educated contemporaries in the media of his country. For him, the past was alive and instructive, and he himself rummaged in the old works and old sources.

Inspiration from ancient Greek poetry

Konstantinos Cavafy came out . Konstantínos Pétrou Kaváfis , one of the largest Greek poets of modern times, lived from 1863 to 1933, especially in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Hockney had already discovered Cavafy during his studies and was enthusiastic about the clear, unpretentious way in which Cavafy writes about homosexuality . Konstantin Cavafy not only dedicated a lot of beautiful poetry to his late homosexuality, but also left many poetic statements, some of which are still surprisingly up to date:

But the Wise Perceike Things About to Happen

Ordinary People Know What's Happening Now, The Gods Know Future Things Because They Alone are Totally Enlightened.

Of what's to come the Wise Perceike Things About to Happen.

Sometimes During Moments of Intense Study Their Hearing's Troubled: The Hidden Sound of Things Approaching Reaches Them,

and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing Whatsoever. "

In German language:

But the wise things perceive things that will happen

Normal people notice what happens now; The gods know what the future brings because it alone is fully illuminated.

From what is imminent, the wise things feel things that will happen.

Sometimes, in moments intensive studies, her hearing is disturbed: the hidden noise of emerging things reaches it,

And they listen in awe, while people don't hear anything outside in the streets. "

(English translation cited from: www.cavafy.com/poems/ , German translation by author of this article).

Cavafy, on the other hand, did not come up with the sense of the zeitgeist, but was inspired by the "ancient Greeks" , in this case by the Sophist Philostratos (165/170 to 244/249) and his life description of the Greek philosopher Apollonios of Tyana, who lived one century : Tyana :

For the Gods PerceIve Future Things, Ordinary People Things in the Present, But the Wise Perceive Things About to Happen. ”

(Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana VIII, 7, www.cavafy.com/poems/ ).

Since a tweeted covfefe inevitably comes to mind at Cavafy at Cavafy, there is a brief detour with education of this puzzle: "Despite the Constant Negative Press Covfefe", the US President tweeted "Negative Press Coverage" (negative press reporting, one of his most common tweet phrases).

The democratic congress member Mike Quigley wanted to make sure that he and other tweets were preserved for later legal review and used this to initiate "Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement" This law for "communication via various electronic channels in fulfilling the official obligation" (or distribution of lies stories, so that engagement can also be translated) was brought into the House of Representatives under the name Covfefe Act June 2017 during the 115th US Congress.

On December 6, 2017, the legislation was referred to the House Committee on Supervision and Government Reform (www.congress.gov/member/betty-mcCollum/M001143?page=3) and is to be decided as part of the "For the People Act" , which was submitted by Quigley in January 2019.

It is worthwhile to read this reform package at quigley.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/quigley-legislation-included-hr-1-peel-actt package, with which "the promise of US democracy is to be restored and the corruption culture in Washington is to be ended" . The regulations for securing digital election systems by including independent cyber security experts, creating a publicly accessible central database for the congress, introduction of an accountability to be responsible for the mandate and the government, if necessary, combating the climate change, building an economy that works for all Americans, costs for prescription medication, Strengthening the ethics laws to ensure that the officials work in the public interest etc.

There is also news about the president: The first media such as Redgreenandblue.org/2019/01/31/covfefe-smocking-gun-global-waming-can-trump-even-rey-write/ , given the tweeted flood of errors, are serious thoughts about whether he can read and write correctly at all.

Intensive studies by the old masters

David Hockney was also taken by a deep urge: research into the artists of past epochs managed to present the world around them so precisely and alive. For two years he devoted himself intensively to this fascinating track and passionately researched the hidden secrets of the old masters .

In a film produced by the BBC , Hockney demonstrates in an impressive way how artists started simple cameras four centuries before the invention of photography to create realistic images. Together with us, Hockney travels to Florence, Bruges and Ghent as well as in a set specially set up in Hollywood for this purpose to illustrate his findings in a vivid way.

For the first time, Hockney told the moving history of his search and its development. Step by step, he explains how he discovered scientific and visual evidence, each of which opened new insights over the past. With his unique artistic look, he analyzes significant works in art history and reveals the fascinating truth about how masters like Caravaggio , Velazquez , van Eyck , Holbein , Leonardo and Ingres SPIEGEL and lenses used to create their imperishable masterpieces.

A particularly revealing comparison arises between Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Altar" (1432) and Hockney's own work "Pearblossom Highway" (1986). It shows that multiple perspectives (many, many windows) create a similar distant effect on a two -dimensional surface as a bird's eye view, but are surprisingly contradictory in detail. Hockney's impressive photo collage "Pearblossom Highway" is made up of around 750 individual chromogeneous deductions.

Historical evidence shows that Van Eyck made numerous drawings of various elements in order to construct his entire painting from these details. In addition, Hockney vividly demonstrates, such as Brunelleschi - the first architect that used mathematical perspective on the redefinition of the Gothic and Romanesque space - used a mirror for the perspective representation of the baptistery of San Giovanni; A painting that amazed Florence around 1412.

Hockney's captivating exploration trip invites the viewer to appreciate the complexity and championship in art history and inspires to continue to immerse yourself in these fascinating topics.

View of the latest developments

Back to a David Hockney who has not only used the latest developments in the past. He painted with acrylic paints as soon as they were on the market, and these new, surprisingly radiant colors are likely to have contributed to the mainstream lover of the stall.

What Hockney has given the allegation of some critics not to produce art, but kitsch ... However, if you can define art and kitsch (which many reasonable people reject for good reasons), the reprehensible at kitsch, after all common definitions, is sold for an excessive price here.

Excessive prices are called for part of David Hockney's art today, and the question of whether these speculation objects and/or status symbols, which are postponed in auction , are still justified. But that has not grown on the artist's crap, and he cannot prevent the instrumentalization of his art under applicable law.

The adaptation of the right or higher taxation of the sellers/auction houses would be the responsibility of the legislator; But it would certainly not be tactically the most clever train to go to the toys, where the enforcement of many more important community regulations for banking, tax escape, etc. in times of increasing nationalism has taken forever time.

“Normal” people can buy David Hockney Art as a poster, with which New Yorker acquires a few dollars (title page, www.newyork.com/magazine/2011/06/13 ) and in the public museum collections of many countries for little money or completely free of charge. You can always carry a small Hockney gallery with you, because the new media also quickly adopted Hockney: at www.davidhockney.co/index.php/digital/ipad 92 iPad Drawings by David Hockney are provided, comfortably arranged to click through. Anyone who looked through them for the first time has no doubt that David Hockney art and not kitsch .

Hockney's gift to all alive and learn interested people

In addition, all people interested in life from David Hockney can take the suggestion to use available knowledge. While Hockney had to go to a library for every incomprehensible term (so that comprehensive training was ultimately only able to afford because of his position that was highlighted early), we can look up today with Wikipedia and Co. ...

The parents also taught Hockney to exhaust his own mind, select and check sources, to doubt and learn. Not all parents can do that today; Schools, universities and other funding opportunities are increasingly refraining from a nonsensical competitive system and are releasing anxious, shy about learning to adult life. It is said for all of these people until the already noticeable tendencies work: Even the man or woman is, although in addition to uncertainty in the selection of sources, unpleasant learning experiences often block your own initiative.

Reducing educational obstacles in adults is also the task of the media; A look at the daily newspaper and television program shows that these fail here. Both are good at the kitsch, in its worst lying, realistic, disrespectful excess: reports on royals and celebrities and documentary soaps in the (public) evening program, effusions of a long-term that has no longer been written (and on February 6, 2019 with 94 years) Rosamunde Pilcher , who are now written by a non-existent Inga Lindström ...

On the Internet you can also learn how to learn and what sources you can trust. For example here: www.gerald-huether.de and here: Kurier.at/wissen/nernen-hirnforscher-sandkuehler-wie-wie-es-ght/400347568 , at www.bpb.de -the official website of the Federal Center for Political Education - you can find a number of new pedagogical approaches of our education system plus a lot of content.

This is exactly where the source is beginning: If you "Learning" , there are only page notes or websites that want to teach people to learn a lot of money for a lot of money. Then there are free offers-from schools and universities, which for many adults who have once again sought learning to learn earlier.

The neurobiologist Hühter, who had long been committed to a completely new direction of our (educational) system, would probably warn: As a willing person, you as a website that already speaks in the sub-line of "more efficiency", "learning work", "performance increase", it could prove to be counterproductive.

In the many search results, some encouraging articles also hide, e.g. B. published these two shortly after the 2000 PISA disaster: Wissen.de (Konradin Mediengruppe, with the greatest provider of specialist information in German-speaking countries) under the title "Learning to learn", a study by the OECD, after motivation, self-confidence, effective learning strategies and the attitude of the students, have a great influence on learning success ( www.wissen.de/das-lernen-lernen-ein-studie-der-oecd ).

Or the article in the Business Magazine Brand Eins , who presents ideas, how the students from the land of the poets, thinkers and Nobel laureates bumping around in math, natural sciences and reads around the Pisa study are to be found again ( www.brandins.de/corporate-publishing/mck-wissen/kissen-bildung/ern- learning).

But: Brand one, which, according to the Goethe Institute, is devoting itself to the search for the human side of the economy, a renovation concept of the management consultancy McKinsey & Company, which is one of the leading performance drivers, presents a renovation concept of the management consultancy. Sentences like "Everyone knows that Finns, Japanese or - in relation to the universities - Americans have a better education system than we do. But who knows why?" show how far fire one was still from the "human side of the economy" .

In the meantime we know why the Finns and Japanese have a better education system. In Finland , teachers are appreciated who in turn deal with their students respectfully and give them the greatest possible freedom to discover the learning; In Japan, Confucian awe in front of education , appreciation of the joint learning without staying sitting and space for innovative development (still) (still) well with growing pressure to perform in schools.

The Americans have now slipped to 31st place in the PISA study, the university offspring puts in rows of absurd high study loans or leaves the country because research there is increasingly restricted; And effective learning strategies have been shown to have a great impact on learning success if the student himself developed for a substance that he also wants to learn himself ...

Konstantin Cavafy also had something to say in 1922:

As much as you can

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can - not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk.

Try Not to Degrade It By Dragging It Along, Taking It Around and Exposing It So Often to the Daily Silliness of Social Events and Parties, Until It Comes to Seem A Boring Hanger-On. "

In German language:

And if you can't design your life as you want, at least try as much as you can - not make it even poor by making too much contact with the world, too much actionism and blah

Try not to downgrade it through hesitant action by turning in a circle and so often exposing it to daily stupidity of events and parties until you pretend as a boring parasite.

(English translation cited from: www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&cat=1 , German translation by author of this article).

The world is beautiful

In this short and captivating video, the outstanding British artist shares his deep insights into seeing and painting - a passion that has accompanied him for over 60 years. He unfolds a story that stimulates to think about our current time.

"The world is extremely beautiful when you really look at it. But many people only see superficially. They scan the ground in front of them, but they do not notice things with the need. I do this, on the other hand, and I have always been aware of this."

In March 2020, Hockney reacted to the outbreak of the Coronavirus with his iPad drawing "Thu Remember Thy Can't Cancel the Spring" (2020).

In this video he reports of a remarkable event: A philosopher was asked in a news program how one could remain optimistic about the negative messages. His answer was: "Well, that's television. Bad news sells." When asked by the reporter for the positive message, the philosopher replied with a slight smile: "Well, the spring comes." Hockney laughs as he shares this anecdote.

His respectful handling of nature and its ability to show us the beauty of life invite us to pause and experience the world around us to the fullest.

Take the opportunity to learn more about Hockney's fascinating perspective and be inspired by his art - perhaps at an upcoming exhibition or through further literature about his impressive works.

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