Saturday, August 22, 2026

David Hockney
(2011) 
 

In 2011, David Hockney unveiled a monumental series of digital paintings that captured the fleeting beauty of a Yorkshire spring. Titled The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011, this collection represents a pivotal moment in contemporary art, blending traditional landscape sensibilities with cutting-edge technology. 
The Arrival of Spring comprises 52 parts, including 51 iPad drawings in which Hockney captured the changing nature along different sections of the road, and his largest painting: "The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty-eleven)," a nearly ten-meter-long painting composed of 32 canvases (each 91.4 x 121.9 cm). It depicts a forest in vibrant colors. The leaves appear to be flying, and a path leads into the burgeoning greenery at the center. The painting technique is understated, adapted to the possibilities of the iPad drawings. David Hockney suggests depth through the blue-green, blurred forests in the background, while in the foreground, the vegetation on the ground is rendered in a patterned and seemingly more detailed manner. Everything is highly stylized and is reminiscent of the decorative tradition of early 20th-century French painting – Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Henri Rousseau, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse would be examples (→ Matisse – Bonnard).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13256057-david-hockney

The arrival of Spring Woldgate Woods
2011
Oil on 32 canvases 
91 x 122 cm (each) 365 x 975 cm overall
Centre Pompidou, Paris
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/media/BWaINat

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13256057-david-hockney 


 

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