Images from http://adrianberg.com/
"A
couple of weeks ago I was at the crowded opening of the much-hyped
exhibition ‘David Hockney: A Bigger Picture’ at the Royal Academy. As I
looked at the vibrantly coloured landscapes on show I wondered what
Hockney’s fellow Royal Academician Adrian Berg would have made of these
enormous and theatrical paintings. While Hockney has come to painting
the landscape of Yorkshire in the last decade since his return from the
USA, Berg has been painting the English landscape in equally vibrant
colours for decades. Hockney’s espousal of new technology and his
perceived originality are oft-discussed, but I can’t help thinking that
these new landscapes also owe a debt to Adrian Berg, with whom Hockney
studied at the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s – and with whom
he remained friends for life. Although the scale of their paintings is
radically different, there is something about the use of colour and
form in Hockney’s recent landscapes that suggests he has absorbed some
lessons from Adrian Berg’s approach."
Simon Martin
Simon Martin
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