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AGO to Present Major Picasso Exhibition in 2012

ROM - Now until January /12 British artist David Hockney takes his show on the cyber space road.

The use of technology has rescued Hockney’s fading eyesight. He became unable to paint the dawn because the sunlight was too pale and lamplight too strong. Now the backlit iPad lets him do whatever he likes, whenever he likes.
David Hockney, in his 70’s, a prolific artist and sketcher has taken on the iPhone and iPad world of innovation and is sharing it with the globe. He would sketch daily whenever and wherever he found himself. His main focus was on the ordinary such as still life or flowers. His renditions are brilliantly colourful with layers of intricate texture. Always a tech lover, he got an iPhone so he could communicate with friends via text messaging. He was curious and soon found that iTunes app store and came across Brushes which he developed in to a sketching tool.

He started sending these sketches to Charlie Schiep, a long time friend of Hockney’s and curator of the show at ROM. No matter where Schiep was in the world, he was thrilled that there were beautiful flowers or still life renditions on his phone waiting for him to view. This led to the latest show of Hockney works.
His show has been to Paris and is opening at the Royal Academy in London, England, in the near future. They will present 60 or 70 iPad sketches – printed on paper: none of then have been released to the public. They will be alongside “The Four Seasons”, the painting for which they served as studies.

He presently has a show at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada. It is not the usual show of his sketches, but an updated version of them. The exhibition is called “Fresh Flowers: Drawing on iPad and iPhone”. Last year, when this same show opened in Paris, Hockney said, “There are gains and losses with everything. You miss the resistance of paper a little, but you can get a marvelous flow. Picasso would have gone mad with this. So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.” ROM has offered a film loop of the artist’s hand moving across the iPad screen as if he were giving it a small, careful caress, with scenes of intensity and colour emerging.

There was a time when Hockney had his suits made to accommodate his sketch book; now they accommodate his iPad. With failing eyesight, using the backlight of his iPad as his canvas has prolonged Hockney’s working life. This innovative method, if adapted by other artists, may help them to remain productive well beyond their expectations.

Steve Jobs would have been proud!

AGO TORONTO - October 18th through to January 15th 2012

32 masterpieces from Russian painter Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and more.

Marc Chagall, a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. His breathtaking paintings will be featured at the Art Gallery of Ontario from October 18th through to January 15th 2012

Drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, the exhibition examines how the painter’s Russian heritage influenced his practice.

“The Pompidou has a prominent collection and we’re thrilled to be able to present this many masterpieces by one of the 20th century’s most famous artists,” says Jessica Bright, project manager. “He wasn’t part of any group, he forged his own path. He formed a lyrical and symbolic style all his own.”

The show also features work of Russian Modernism by artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and more.