Art

David Hockney

The artwork "Large Interior Los Angeles" by David Hockney is an interesting piece of modern art. It shows an abstract view of a room from above, and the artist uses bright colors and abstract designs to show the contents of the room. The artist includes many details in this oil, paper, and ink on canvas painting he made in 1988. There are paintings on the wall, a statue on the mantel of the fireplace, and lots of random furniture in the room, making it feel sort of random and diverse at the same time. The walls all meet at different angles, too, which is kind of funny, because most rooms aren't built that way. Of course, that is something Hockney does, he creates fantasy worlds, his painting is not supposed to be realistic.

He does not show a window in the room, just leaves it open to the outside, where there are plants and a stairway. This is also a way to show how a room does not have to be closed off from the outside and keeping nature outside. It seems as if the artist wants to show that there can be a balance between indoors and outdoors if we try hard enough.

It is also interesting that the artist used different mediums in this painting, which is not so common. It seemed to make the painting more realistic somehow, even though the painter does not really paint realistic scenes. The ink helped bring out some of the details, and the paper gave texture and a 3-D quality to the work. This keeps on in the perspective of the work, which certainly is not real. The door into the room is tiny, while some of the chairs in the room seem twice as big as the door! The different types of chairs also don't have anything to do with most interior designs, but some how, the whole thing comes together and seems to please the eye somehow. I did not used to appreciate modern art very much, but this painting kind of reminds me of a cartoon, and I like it. The bright colors and random shapes look right in the work, and it kind of makes me laugh, for some reason.