David Hockney film set to be shown in Bradford (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

I think with Hockney it's a case of 'The Emperors New Clothes', it's cool to say what an artist he is but if you look at his paintings,God, they are terrible, actually like a 10 year olds, i have no artistic talent whatsoever but if i painted a landscape and he signed it then people would be fawning round it saying how fantastic it was.

oswald777 wrote:
I think with Hockney it's a case of 'The Emperors New Clothes', it's cool to say what an artist he is but if you look at his paintings,God, they are terrible, actually like a 10 year olds, i have no artistic talent whatsoever but if i painted a landscape and he signed it then people would be fawning round it saying how fantastic it was.

I couldn't disagree more. I'm not an art buff myself (far from it) but his latest works are excellent. Having seen some of these paintings at salts mill and cartwright hall, I would advise anyone to go and see them.
Some of them are absolutely massive (about 30ft) and all of them are accessible. By that I mean they are in no way pretentious and you don't have to be Brian Sewell to appreciate them as is often the case with contemporary art.
I have seen this documentary and I suggest you watch it. I'm sure your opinion of him would change. For a man who's pushing 80 to produce a body a work like this (some of it on an iPad) is something to be admired. And he's from Bradford ffs!

Brian Sewell actually said recently that he didn't like Hockney's work. However he is generally regarded as the greatest living British artist by those in the art world who know considerably more about the subject than most of us. Whether or not you like it is a completely different thing to it being 'good'

I'd love to know what his opinion on his film not being able to be shown at the Odeon following it's state sup[ported demise. I bet he's got one!

I would love to own a David Hockney art work of the Yorkshire Wolds or what is sometimes called 'Hockney Country'. The artist visited over 20 different different locations from Warter to Bridlington. Many of these places are shown as a Hockney Trail at www.yocc.co.uk

simongregson wrote:
I would love to own a David Hockney art work of the Yorkshire Wolds or what is sometimes called 'Hockney Country'. The artist visited over 20 different different locations from Warter to Bridlington. Many of these places are shown as a Hockney Trail at www.yocc.co.uk

Likewise, I find his interpretations of these locations stunningly beautiful. With the recent death of Lucien Freud he is surely our greatest living artist.
And oswald777, the art world is extremely fickle so if a painting that you made and Hockney signed matched your 'lack of artistic talent' it would quite rightly be torn to pieces by Brian Sewell et al (that's not to say it wouldn't still be valuable though!)

His paintings are dire, you can all sit round pretending to think his 'interpretations' of Yorkshire are fantastic, even his old tutor from Bradford college doesn't rate his work. Remember the childish scribble he did on the phonebook ? Ha ha, pathetic. Look at Monets paintings or if it needs to be British for you to like it, Constables, artists with talent and not just using their name. I can imagine pretentious people like yourself can look at modern art and think its good too, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are other examples of talentless people who wanted to be 'artists'. Can imagine you all stood there just staring at a fire extinguisher thinking,' brilliant, i really like what Damien has done there'. Get a grip.

oswald777 wrote:
His paintings are dire, you can all sit round pretending to think his 'interpretations' of Yorkshire are fantastic, even his old tutor from Bradford college doesn't rate his work. Remember the childish scribble he did on the phonebook ? Ha ha, pathetic. Look at Monets paintings or if it needs to be British for you to like it, Constables, artists with talent and not just using their name. I can imagine pretentious people like yourself can look at modern art and think its good too, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are other examples of talentless people who wanted to be 'artists'. Can imagine you all stood there just staring at a fire extinguisher thinking,' brilliant, i really like what Damien has done there'. Get a grip.

oswald777 said:

'you can all sit round pretending to think his 'interpretations' of Yorkshire are fantastic'.

We ain't pretending you arrogant twerp.

oswald777 wrote:
His paintings are dire, you can all sit round pretending to think his 'interpretations' of Yorkshire are fantastic, even his old tutor from Bradford college doesn't rate his work. Remember the childish scribble he did on the phonebook ? Ha ha, pathetic. Look at Monets paintings or if it needs to be British for you to like it, Constables, artists with talent and not just using their name. I can imagine pretentious people like yourself can look at modern art and think its good too, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are other examples of talentless people who wanted to be 'artists'. Can imagine you all stood there just staring at a fire extinguisher thinking,' brilliant, i really like what Damien has done there'. Get a grip.

They're in good company then. The work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne were routinely panned while they were still alive.

oswald777 wrote:

even his old tutor from Bradford college doesn't rate his work.

Would that be the same 'old tutor' who - apocryphally - told the supremely talented Andy Goldworthy to stop messing about with mud and bits of leaves?