David Hockney’s iPad Art Goes on Display

I think Hock­ney has always been an intel­lec­tu­al and quick to make use of any new tool. I’ve heard peo­ple say this is all hype. He is extreme­ly tal­ent­ed in an acces­si­ble way. He does­n’t flirt with unfath­omable scrib­bles of the avante guard. Col­or, form, tex­ture. It’s all there. And it’s all orig­i­nal.
Belle Yang

David Hock­ney says Van Gogh would have had one.…..hmmmm

‘He’d have thrown the damn thing against the wall in frus­tra­tion at the lousy wi-fi con­nec­tion in Arles.…He cer­tain­ly wouldn’t show up at an exhi­bi­tion with a cus­tom made ‘I Pad pock­et’. As they say in Mr. Hockney’s native Eng­land – He’d have turned up ‘pissed’ on rough as old nails absinthe and told them to all ‘f*** off’”.….more on the Hock­ney I Pad

I have been dig­i­tal paint­ing for years so this is noth­ing new to me. It is rather annoy­ing and insult­ing when you tell peo­ple that you paint dig­i­tal­ly and you get a kind of dis­s­a­point­ed response from some­one and a com­ment like “Oh, so it’s done by a com­put­er” as if you just press a but­ton and up pops a paint­ing. Com­put­ers are tools, they are not capa­ble of cre­at­ing art on their own, and it requires a knowl­edge of tra­di­tion­al painting(form,composition,study of light and colour) to pro­duce qual­i­ty work. Do you think that when humans start­ed using brush­es and can­vas instead of stone tablets peo­ple thought that it was any less valid? So when peo­ple say “yes but is it art?” I ask them to have a go on a graph­ics tablet and see if their stick­man draw­ing will sud­den­ly trans­form into a Davin­ci-esque mas­ter-piece. It takes years to mas­ter any disi­pline and dig­i­tal paint­ing is no dif­fer­ent.

I found this way of paint­ing today for the first time and I´m real­ly impressed about the pos­si­bil­i­ties. I will check it on my iPad for mar­ket­ing themes as soon as pos­si­ble.

Quite bor­ing col­ors on a digi paint­ing there, con­ser­v­a­tive­ly try­ing to mim­ic oil paint­ing medi­um. It must be hard to get any kind of decent tex­ture on it. And when the tex­ture is done, it is real­ly “done”, not born nat­u­ral­ly out of the mate­ri­als and paint. For Hock­ney say­ing van Goch should have had Ipad, that’s just plain stu­pid­i­ty.