The Hockneys: an intimate look into the early life of David Hockney and his family

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If there is a single contemporary British work that shares the thematic and artistic concerns of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, it is the painting England’s Glory (1961; fig.4) by Derek Boshier. Across the media divide, affinities between the two images include the incorporation of both British and American flags, and a suggestion of interchange across a watery expanse; the fusion of such bold, colourful, geometric elements with montage-like passages of more complex and fluid imagery, and with gestural marks; the incorporation of words on a variety of scales; and an overall informality and visual congestion of pictorial structure. The Boshier painting has been discussed in relation to the currency in his early work of the theme of ‘American influence and, most especially, American corporate and military power’. 39 Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late 1960s that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realised it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room. He began to work more with photography after this discovery, stopping painting for a while to pursue this new technique exclusively. That California has been extinguished. It no longer exists. The proof of this is in its embrace by the Sussexes. In the latest instalment on Netflix, of what has to be the most painful thing I have watched on TV possibly ever, they go on about how great it was to flee the constraints of nasty old Britain for the welcoming, freeing landscapes and nice, open-minded people of Southern California. The docuseries shows footage of Harry and Meghan cavorting in Big Sur as a new couple, and walking around their enormous property with their children as if loafing about a vast private garden with your offspring is the bravest thing a person, indeed a couple, could do. (The lingo of “bravery” permeates their narrative, along with “courage” and “sacrifice”. To this pair, simply asking “Are you OK?” seems to be virtually tantamount to saving someone from a burning building.)

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Yes, but the trees in the Bayeux Tapestry are all the same, aren’t they? It’s not about the seasons, really. It’s about making the ships and going off to England, and things like that. But mine is even more real—it’s about the seasons. And mine is longer, nearly three hundred feet. [ Laughs.] I had to do it from the two hundred and twenty paintings and add to them to get a whole year. It was a bit difficult to join them all together, and we couldn’t see all of it in this studio. We could only make a half-size version and had to do it in bits. So the first time I saw it, really, was when we put it up in the museum, and I did think it was very good.Made in the spring of 2020, during a period of intense activity at his home in Normandy, this exhibition charts the unfolding of spring, from beginning to end, and is a joyous celebration of the seasons. I always knew about the Bayeux Tapestry and first went to see it in 1967. We were told about it at school [in England] when I was about five or six years old. That was 1942 or ’43; there was a threat of a German conquest. France had been conquered three years before—and Holland, lots of other European countries. England hadn’t yet, and now I realize that’s why they told us about this story: because it was the last time anybody conquered England. I spent part of last week in Cambridge at my old college with my former director of studies, a professor of English. He is quiet and diffident, reclusive but kind, and he made a big impact on us all as snotty-nosed under-graduates. His past, as we knew through the grapevine, was radical. A grammar school boy from Haringey whose mother left school at 14 (as I later found out), he wound up in the avant-garde set around the social theorist Michel Foucault, translated the (to me, incomprehensible) works of Roland Barthes, and wrote theoretically interesting books about sex. Stuffy or showy he was not. Interesting, incredibly erudite and experimental he most certainly was. At any rate, My Bonnie offers an intriguing visual equivalent to the casual, affectionate, nostalgic tone, combining tender lyric sentiment with mundane circumstances, that O’Hara deployed, for instance, in his recent poem ‘Song’, first published in the same year of 1961. 35 Over time, however, he discovered what he could not capture with a lens, saying: "Photography seems to be rather good at portraiture, or can be. But, it can't tell you about space, which is the essence of landscape. For me anyway. Even Ansel Adams can't quite prepare you for what Yosemite looks like when you go through that tunnel and you come out the other side." [60] Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one-eyed' approach, [61] he returned to painting.