David Hockney , the English painterknownfor his pop art and technological experiment , has beamed more than 300 iPad drawings to an on-going exhibition in Paris . This act has been more controversial than you might have guessed !
“ Very quotidian … some are quite bad , ” writes former New York Times internet design theatre director Khoi Vinh . “ refuse ” is the verdict of Choire Sicha , the Awl co - editor and former art dealer .
But asThe Atlantic remind us , Hockney has been toying with tech peter for tenner , including eighties graphics programme and something called “ facsimile art . ” And there are some practical benefits to his tab use : ” The iPad ’s backlight get you paint at any time of mean solar day , the app ’s color wheel provides every pigment , and its very nature renders set - up and white - up obsolete . ” The iPad also lets Hockney do most of his painting in bed . With another Apple machine he was capable to quickly give a shot of aurora breaking breaking across the North Sea , when it normally “ would be too dark to see the blusher . ”
Even Sicha concede the “ wonderful and awesome and unexpected ” panorama of this oeuvre , as does Vinh . But conceding the awful possibility inherent in iPad painting can make Hockney ’s hooey seem all the more dim . Vinh :
Someone like David Hockney , you ’d bear , would be able to show us exclusively raw worlds … on a twist like the iPad . Instead the deeds in “ Fresh Flowers ” are faint echo of a world we already know .
Or to put it in the words of native iPad critics : “ One star / Would not recommend/’Lots of potential , weak execution ’ . ”
[ iPad paintingsvia The Atlantic . flick image to expand ]
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