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- DAVID HOCKNEY: A PORTRA OF THE ARTIST AS A GAY MAN
- DAVID HOCKNEY WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, FACTS, NET WORTH, TODAY
- DAVID HOCKNEY'S DOUBLE PORTRA OF GAY BT FRIEND FETCH NEARLY $50 MILLN AT CHRISTIE'S LONDON
- 'TOTALLY HYPNOTIZG' HOCKNEY PORTRA OF FAMO GAY COUPLE COULD FETCH $38 MILLN AT CHRISTIE'S
DAVID HOCKNEY: A PORTRA OF THE ARTIST AS A GAY MAN
More importantly, Hockney has given an imagery through which we n beg to unrstand the whe gay male experience 1970s Los Angel. Hockney was an artist who fied generally-accepted social stctur and led his life as an openly gay man a world that systematilly opprsed and silenced those who did not nform.
DAVID HOCKNEY WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, FACTS, NET WORTH, TODAY
5Quickly, Hockney also sought to rporate allns to his own homosexualy his patgs, spired by the texts of Christopher Isherwood and Alan Rechy, which revelled the explos of their homosexual characters. At the time, homosexualy was illegal England, so Hockney pated self-portras. He was gay and pated himself, effectively creatg gay art, but flyg unr the radar.
But Hockney also started his Love Patgs, which celebrated homosexual love by rporatg phallic elements tanm wh fantastil lors and imagery. This was his attempt to fe the dividual, the real, and the imagary to provi a homosexual space of pleasure and actualized sire.
Bohemian liftyl were the new fad, artists were weled wh arms wi open, and the gay scene was bubblg wh possibili.
DAVID HOCKNEY'S DOUBLE PORTRA OF GAY BT FRIEND FETCH NEARLY $50 MILLN AT CHRISTIE'S LONDON
” Hockney wanted to celebrate jt how different the gay liftyle is om the heterosexual one.
'TOTALLY HYPNOTIZG' HOCKNEY PORTRA OF FAMO GAY COUPLE COULD FETCH $38 MILLN AT CHRISTIE'S
1It is out of this need to portray gay life that Hockney started formulatg his hedonistic, sun-bathed image of California. Hockney loved Cavafy's direct and simple poems about doomed homosexual love, and even went to Alexandria and Beit, where many of the poems are set, to get the display at the Walker are 12 prts bought by the Arts Council Collectn 1966. "Hockney the 1960s was makg work on subjects he knew and red about – primarily beg a young gay man when you really uldn't shout about .
)Bantas said they were keen to build a show around the patg, and have borrowed siarly themed works, cludg Man Shower Beverly Hills om the exhibn is beg staged as part of Liverpool's Homotopia Ftival 2013, and Bantas hop people will see Hockney as somethg of a gay hero.