Bernadette’s diary
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author: LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette
Seeing David Hockney ‘s Show in cinema
it all started in 2016
i knew I could finally afford to go to London from Italy
in order to see the Hockney’s 82 paintings and a stilllife
I navigated on internet
and found the Royal College of Art website
it started a summer intensive course which lasts only 12 days
I gave myself an excuse
to enroll myself as a student as well as to see Hockney’s works
because
I wanted to feel alive again
when I was a visiting student at the Edinburgh College of Art, from1980-1981,
I used to rush to see the new catalogues just came out on Hockney
whenever I got upset, I would flip a few pages of his catalogues
then I would feel better
was able to paint again
At the time, the only original Hockney’s works I could see were those famous pieces at Tate
other works I had never seen, though I knew them so well from catalogues
so last year I was able to go to Tate to see his retrospective
and this year, I was happy to see the same Royal Academy Show again
I thought people are strange
when I was at the Royal College of Art
where Hockney went when he was young
no one could share about their opinion of the Hockney’s Show at the Royal Academy
None of the teachers nor students had gone to see
I had to wait thirty years to be able to afford to see some original Hockney...
so I ended up painting Hockney and Patrick during my 12 days at the RCA
as, apart from Picasso,
these two public figures have always made my days better whenever I am depressed
thank you, Patrick and David
and Pablo