Paper Pools

Paper Pools by Stangos, Nikos (ed). paperback edition. ISBN: 9780810922297.

Water and light, which have fascinated David Hockney for a long time, are the themes of irresistibly cheerful works he has dubbed Paper Pools. To produce them, the artist drew with colored paper pulp on handmade paper; when pressed and dried, the pulp merged with the paper. The images is thus part of the paper fiber itself. Fusing papermaking and painting, the Paper Pools have been hailed not only as a new departure for Hockney but as a genuine tour de force. This volume, in addition to reproducing in full color the 29 Paper Pools thta make up the series, contains Hockneys own vivid and humorous account of how he came to create these intriguing works. David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. In the 2001 television programme and book, Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura techniques, utilized with a concave mirror, which allowed the subject to be projected onto the surface of the painting. Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually to Italy and most of Europe, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting we see in the Renaissance and later periods of art.