A Bigger Grand Canyon. by blinkings

Photography • Alternative • posted on Apr 18, 2017

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In 1982 David Hockney took a series of photographs of the Grand Canyon that he placed together to form a collage. Hockney returned to the Grand Canyon theme in 1986, producing a large-scale photo-collage of sixty photographs; and again in 1997, when he painted A composition for a bigger Grand Canyon. Hockney began work on the National Gallery of Australia’s A bigger Grand Canyon in February 1998. The painting is a culminating statement about the depiction and experience of space. By using different views taken over a period of time, Hockney refers to Cubism, where a subject is depicted from multiple viewpoints; to Chinese scroll painting, where different time sequences and landscape elements come together to form an apparent whole; and to his own set designs for opera. With its many viewpoints and shifting time-frame, A bigger Grand Canyon suggests what it is like to be in a landscape, to travel around it, to view tiny details as well as dramatic vistas, to see changing light and to trample the earth underfoot. The large format and extravagant colour has also been related to the spectacle of Hollywood and to representations of the sublime.