articles/Dont call Hockney a Pop artist — theartnewspaper.com

An interview following the documentary showed this vitally important and unique artist to be still deeply engaged with his work In a live interview from his Los Angeles studio, shown on Tuesday night in cinemas across the UK (the Clapham Picturehouse in South London was packed), David Hockney jumped straight into one of his favourite subjects and active areas of work, reverse perspective. Playing a clip from the 1988 documentary “A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China (or Surface is Illusion but so is Depth)”, Hockney explained how Chinese scroll painters had offered an alternative to post Renaissance Western perspective where, as he put it, the vanishing point being at infinity means God was always out of reach. It was fitting, as the interview followed immediately after a screening of “Hockney”, a new film by Randall Wright that officially opens in the UK on 28 November and that throws almost every stage of his life into sharp relief, with very little left obscured by the passage of time.

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