A spectacular image by one of the world\u2019s most celebrated living painters has gone on display at a Kent art gallery.<\/p>\n
The colourful work, which measures 10m x 7m, is a scaled-up version of David Hockney\u2019s Sunrise in Normandy and now occupies the floor-to-ceiling Sunley Window at Turner Contemporary in Margate.<\/p>\n
The David Hockney artwork, which has been unveiled at the Turner Contemporary in Margate. Photo: Above Ground Studio<\/p>\n
Originally created on an iPad in 2020, the work was specifically adapted and enlarged by the artist to celebrate the venue\u2019s 15th anniversary, creating a \u201cluminous threshold between the gallery and the shoreline\u201d.<\/p>\n
The installation coincides with a major exhibition at Serpentine in London by Hockney entitled A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting.<\/p>\n
But Turner Contemporary says its exhibition offers visitors outside the capital a rare opportunity to see work by Hockney.<\/p>\n
The colourful image has been drawing visitors to the gallery after being unveiled on April 1, with children from Salmestone Primary School among the first to see it.<\/p>\n
Gallery bosses say the work, which will remain on show until November 1, resonates with Turner Contemporary\u2019s founding vision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Pupils from Salmestone Grange School were among the first to admire the impressive piece at the Turner Contemporary. Photo: Above Ground Studio<\/p>\n
Hockney, who briefly taught at Maidstone College of Art in 1962, has frequently acknowledged his admiration for JMW Turner, particularly his radical treatment of light, atmosphere, and landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstalled on the site of the former boarding house where Turner stayed in Margate, Hockney\u2019s sunrise aligns two artists through a sustained focus on light, the seasons, and the experience of looking,\u201d gallery bosses say.<\/p>\n
Hockney briefly held the record for the most valuable piece of work to be sold at auction by a living artist after his Portrait of an Artist (pool with two figures), fetched $90.3 million at Christie\u2019s in November 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spectacular image by one of the world\u2019s most celebrated living painters has gone on display at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,22139,1120,96,192,191,2555,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-days-out","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-human-interest","15":"tag-kent","16":"tag-thanet","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}