| David Hockney (1937-) is one of the most influential masters in today's international art circles who is still active in the western art circles. In the 1960s, Hockney, graduated from Royal College of Art, started to cut a figure in art circles and moved to Los Angeles, America in 1964. He created a series of famous works like A Bigger Splash, Mr. and Mrs. Clarkand Percy and the Highway with Blooming Pear Followers in the meanwhile. In the 1990s, when his old friend Jonathan Silver and his artist mother died in succession, he started to spend more time staying at his hometown Bridlington, in which the open country, forest and countryside became the main inspiration source for his art creation. This paper aims to research a series of classical landscape works created by Hockney in areas like Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. It will explore various forms of Hockney's pictorial arts through the changes of painting from 1960s to now, retrospect the origin of thought of his painting language, as well as excavate the art concept and spiritual pursuit of artists' painting works, and discuss the enlightenment brought by "Hockney elements" for art learning and creating.The paper is divided into four chapters. The first chapter it the trace of development of Hockney Art. It firstly summarizes his art journey during the period when he immigrated to America in 1960s. Then the paper gives a brief introduction of Hockney's Bridlington series artwork, it was created after he came back to his hometown Yorkshire in 1990s, and he came back to his theme of nature as well.The second chapter analyzes the formal language of Hockney's art in the aspects of space, color and symbolization. It mainly compares Hockney's works to other representative masterpieces, and it aims to discover and definite the element of the formal language of Hockney's art.The third chapter is an analysis to the concept of Hockney's art, based on the form of his works. The author discusses from three aspects. The first one is Hockney's attitude toward tradition. As an artist who went through the wave of Abstract Expressionism in the last century, Hockney did not cater to the new trend or neglect the tradition in that era when the new concept and new form were popular. Instead, he quietly observed and deeply thought, and absorbed inspirations from tradition for his own art. The second aspect is the multiple art spirit of Hockney's experiments. Hockney spoke highly of Picasso ever since he was a student, and his art career was as diverse as Picasso's. Hockney made his fame in so many areas such as Abstract Expressionism, realistic creation of natural tendencies, photography and new media creation. The third aspect could be referred as the spiritual core of the Bridlington series. It's the perception to natural and life, from an old artist, when he came back to home town as a senior age, and was faced with all those scene once familiar but now strange. Hockney applied humanity to the Mother Nature. The form of "man to be an integral part of nature" is where the artist's refuge spirit to nature lied in.The forth chapter discusses the influence of "Hockney element". The author firstly talked about how Hockney's art inspired him during his art creation and study. The author especially respects the various art spirit of Hockney's experiments. He never stopped exploring in arts during his later years, and his sight was still as pure as a child, filled with fun for what he saw. Then the author brings a tentative analysis and prediction of Hockney's impact to contemporary arts development, through the research of his art works. |
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