David Hockney, a companion of Kitaj’s at the London Royal College of Art and one of the foremost British Pop artists until he moved to Los Angeles to live in 1964, displays the versatility of his art in the present painting. The young man’s legs, hands and head are rendered in an expressionistic style, while the laurel wreath is painted with the technical virtuosity that would characterise much of the painter’s oeuvre. To these figurative elements Hockney adds various abstract brushstrokes dabbed on in lines, in white, ochre and black, in the central part of the composition. In addition, to establish a play between reality and the painted image, the canvas reproduces the shape of a tomb in order, according to the artist, to “ignore the concept of illusionistic space and paint merrily in a flat style.”
Paloma Alarcó
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