A Medieval Epic of Brutality and Belief
By MARIO NAVES
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‘I can work anywhere: big places or small places,” David Hockney says in a rare American television interview from 1981. “I do the watercolors in small rooms and the large paintings in large rooms.” His interviewer sits out of sight, saying nothing in response to these banalities. “Very occasionally,” the British artist says, as if compelled to fill the silence, “I’ll do a large painting in a small room.”
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|‘I can work anywhere: big places or small places,” David Hockney says in a rare American television interview from 1981. “I do the watercolors in small rooms and the large paintings in large rooms.” His interviewer sits out of sight, saying nothing in response to these banalities. “Very occasionally,” the British artist says, as if compelled to fill the silence, “I’ll do a large painting in a small room.”
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