Untitled No. 4, No. 7, No. 18, No. 18, and No 19 from “The Yosemite Suite”

The five works from “The Yosemite Suite” including No. 4, No. 7, No. 14, No. 18, and No. 19, 2010, represent the first year of David Hockney’s exploration using iPad technology. For more than fifty years prior, Hockney was an established elder statesman of the art world who had achieved success through traditional painting and drawing. In 2008, he first branched out into computer drawing with the vibrant depiction of the Yorkshire countryside in Winter Road Near Kilham, 2008. In hindsight, using Photoshop to draw might seem unremarkable; but for Hockney it was a radical departure employing computers “to draw freely and fast with color.”[1] This led to his use of an iPhone in 2009, and sub...