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There is art in London for a couple day's trip, almost too much. David Hockney's (b. 1935) huge exhibition in Tate Britain was a retrospective to his long career. The styles changed, so did techniques, the canvases got bigger and smaller, the landscapes changed rapidly. The
last Yorkshire landscapes were familiar already after an exhibition a couple years back, and that exhibition was really a better totality than this one. I would have liked to examine more his portraits from 1960-1970's. These didn't really flatter the sitters, but the surroundings were depicted finely: blank rooms, patterned armchairs, swimming pools and stylish clothes. At the same time there was in British Museum a small, more intimate exhibition of David Hockney's graphics. These etchings were beautiful, a bit mystic. It was fun to see in Tate a painting of hypnotist, and the same subject in British Museum as an etching, a mirror image. In the Snake etching there was a surprising red colour, intriguing. A huge artist, and a huge career!
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