I was with Jonathan and J.P., and they went shopping and looked after me. I did at least one drawing a day, with the constant changes going on all around the house. We were in a house in the middle of a four-acre field full of fruit trees. So when the lockdown came, I didn’t mind. I must also point out that there is no cleaning up needed even if you have drawn all day. And it got me quite excited by the iPad again. Well, I thought they had ruined it, and then the new iPads wouldn’t take it, but I had let them know about it, so in 2018 my assistant Jonathan Wilkinson told me that we could do another Brushes with a mathematician in Leeds, so this is what we did. But then in 2016 they altered it, to improve it they said. This is all it can be, so I thought it the most honest one. It was quite simple, as all the brushes were labelled with a mark, just a mark, no names, so you didn’t have an oil painting brush or a watercolour brush, just the mark it made on the canvas. I tried a few other apps but settled on Brushes as being the best for me. It was a new medium and I enjoyed finding out about it. The app I used in 2011 was called Brushes. This takes about three months, and I think it’s the most exciting thing nature has to offer in this part of the world. I have been working this year, 2020, to depict the arrival of spring in Normandy. I am at the moment drawing, or painting really, on an iPad. They are a little blip on an endless search to see what the world is like. Why have people stopped drawing? It’s ridiculous to think photographs are the ultimate realist picture. Ingres, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet and Monet, and then Renoir and Degas, who was a superb draughtsman, and paving the way for Van Gogh, Bonnard, Matisse and Picasso, a fantastic artist who drew in many different ways, always depicting something in the world. The 19th century in France was a great period of it. There have been great periods of drawing. You have to find out yourself, you have to draw it. What does the world look like? I don’t think it looks like photographs. This is an excerpt from a text written by David Hockney in July 2020 From the Spring 2020 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA.
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