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In David Hockney’s Still Life series the artist’s long-running interests in optics and perspective come to the fore, along with the obsession with light and shadow that brought him to sunny LA, where most of these print compositions were produced.

David Hockney prints for sale

Two Vases In The Louvre - Signed Print by David Hockney 1974 - MyArtBroker
Two Vases In The Louvre 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Glass Table With Objects - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker
Glass Table With Objects 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Table Flowable - Signed Print by David Hockney 1991 - MyArtBroker
Table Flowable 
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Still Life With Book - Signed Print by David Hockney 1973 - MyArtBroker
Still Life With Book 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Still Life (silver flowers) - Signed Print by David Hockney 1965 - MyArtBroker
Still Life (silver flowers) 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Still Life - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker
Still Life 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Alka Seltzer - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker
Alka Seltzer 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Two Peppers - Signed Print by David Hockney 1973 - MyArtBroker
Two Peppers 
David HockneySigned Print 

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Meaning & Analysis

Hockney continually embraces the still-life artistic tradition and his Still Lifes series captures this commitment to unique observation and detail. David Hockney embraces this tradition across his large oeuvre of prints which sees him coming back to the essential elements of observation time and again. Whether in one of his first lithographs,Still Life (silver flowers) or works, we see him giving as much attention to inanimate objects and flowers as in his portraits of his most beloved friends.

Here the artist’s long-running interests in optics and perspective come to the fore, along with his obsessions with light and shadow which brought him to LA, where most of these compositions date from. Objects are studied on a plane, usually a table, with the background left blank as if against a wall, or facing a window, as with the 1969 Still Life. Often a book is placed next to a vase of flowers, adding a third element to the composition, as in Still Life With Book. While many of these works seem to follow a tradition Hockney also subverts the genre to great effect in prints such as Alka Seltzer, an early aquatint study of packaging that recalls his famous Typhoo painting. Not strictly a still life, the work includes a figure surrounded by text, as in the style of Myself and My Heroes. Here the artist takes his familiar practice of paying close attention to an object or logo and transforms it into a living tableau, injecting the still life with a narrative.

Table Flowable also sees Hockney playing with abstraction within the still life genre. Here, loosely formed vases and a roughly sketched apple sit on a table that appears to be in a state of flux. Bulbous flowers emerge from the vessels, their blossoms resembling Calder’s mobiles, giving the composition a sense of dynamism and flow that we have come to recognise from the artist’s work in the ’90s, with print series such as Some New Prints.