David Hockney, My Parents, 1977, oil on canvas. In this work, painted a year before
David Hockney, My Parents, 1977, oil on canvas. In this work, painted a year before his father’s death, Hockney’s style has shifted towards a closer study of human behaviour. His mother poses, attentive and graceful, while his father, who fidgeted during sittings, was painted reading Aaron Scharf’s book Art and Photography. A book on Chardin draws a parallel with intimate domestic scenes of the past, as do the volumes of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past visible on the shelf. Piero della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ (now in the National Gallery; see below) is reflected in the mirror, forming a triptych with the two figures.http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-my-parents-t03255 -- source link
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