For these youngsters, Hockney is not an art-world giant. He is simply part of everyday life.<\/p>\n
When asked who he was, one child, Finn, answers confidently: “He was a famous painter.” Another, Joni points out that “he doesn’t just do paintings, he does videos as well.”<\/p>\n
The children know his work in detail.<\/p>\n
Asked about their favourite pictures, Betsy says: “I like the big splash ones”. For Finn, it’s “the sunflower one” and Yunus says: “I like his trees.”<\/p>\n
Many have visited nearby Salts Mill, home to a huge collection of Hockney’s work. For children growing up in Saltaire, his art is woven into the fabric of the village.<\/p>\n
And they know why he matters here.<\/p>\n
“Because we’re named after him,” says Bonnie, and Hayat adds: “He was born in Bradford.”<\/p>\n
As the children happily paint and chatter, there are echoes of Hockney’s own approach, noticing details, experimenting with colours and painting simple joys.<\/p>\n
“I was using red and white and pink,” Betsy explains, while Joni says: “I was trying to draw the flowers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For these youngsters, Hockney is not an art-world giant. He is simply part of everyday life. When asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646865","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=646865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}