David Hockney is possibly the world&s most popular living painter but he is also something else an incisive & original thinker on art Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems & paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface How does drawing make one &see things clearer & clearer & clearer still& as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media
- from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad
- have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make & the reality around us? How have changes in technology affected the way artists depict the world? The conversations are punctuated by wise & witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists
- Van Gogh or Vermeer Caravaggio Monet Picasso
- & enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social & physical landscapes of California where Hockney lives & Yorkshire his birthplace Some of the people he has encountered along the way
- from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder
- make entertaining appearances in the dialogue