David Hockney, portrait of the old painter on fire – Liberation

“You have to paint what you like.” This motto of David Hockney reflects the temperament of the artist as well as the tones of his paintings and drawings: he takes existence on the bright side. His work is joyful and inventive. Hockney in his own way is an explorer. Example: on January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled a new device to the whole world, the iPad; on April 6 of the same year, Hockney, born in 1937, made his first pen drawing on his tablet. Galvanized by its discovery (“Frankly, I can’t imagine that an artist is not interested in it”), Hockney sends this first digital drawing to Martin Gayford, the art historian who collects the artist’s words in these two books, one of which, Conversations with David Hockney, is a reissue. The painter did not stop there in the conquest of new media: visitors to the retrospective dedicated to him in 2017 in Paris were able to see the four huge and superb panels of images captured by nine cameras. They filmed the same forest in all four seasons.

Hockney and Gayford have known each other for “A quarter of …

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