Lithograph Of Water Made Of Lines And A Green Wash
Lithograph Of Water Made Of Lines And A Green Wash
Signed Print
David Hockney
65 x 86cm, Edition of 36, Lithograph, 1980
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Meaning & Analysis
Lithograph Of Water Made Of Lines And A Green Wash is a 1980 lithograph by David Hockney from his Swimming Pools series. A diving board extends over a pool whose surface is drawn in rippling blue and green lines over a tiled grid, with soft washes of blue. The work is signed, dated 1978-80 and numbered from an edition of 36.
Water has been one of Hockney’s central subjects since the 1960s, when he painted the Californian swimming pools in works such as A Bigger Splash. In the late 1970s he returned to the theme in a group of lithographs and paper pulp works, in which he looked for ways to describe the movement and transparency of water with the simplest of means.
This print shows a pool seen from above, with a white diving board running diagonally across the top of the sheet and a band of dark green shadow behind it. The surface of the water is drawn with short, curved strokes in blue and green, each one like a ripple or a flash of light, laid over a grid of fine lines that suggests the tiles on the bottom. Areas of soft, airbrushed blue float above the grid and read as reflections of the sky.
The effect is surprisingly varied for a print made with so few elements. The lines are quick and rhythmic, the washes are almost weightless, the empty white of the paper stands in for the glare of sunlight.
