David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical
By Laura June 
posted October 11th 2009 9:36AM
posted October 11th 2009 9:36AM
Artist David Hockney isn't afraid of picking up new media -- over the years, he's used Polaroids, photocollages, and even fax machines to create his art -- in addition to regular, old-fashioned painting. Now, he's taken to using his iPhone to create new works of art. The resultant "paintings" have been exhibited at the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in Los Angeles and Germany. Like artist Jorge Colombo (whose iPhone fingerpainting was featured on the cover of The New Yorker), Hockney uses the iPhone app Brushes to create his works. In an interview with the New York Review of Books, Hockney notes that he prefers and still uses the original version of the app, not the more recent updates. Hmm... maybe the reason our own Brushes paintings stink is because we're using the update!
[Via All Things D]
[Via All Things D]
he just pinched to zoom LOL
What a load of crap. Oh wait, it's "art". Even a piece of crap can make a statement or something.
yeah , it is total rubbish .
Hey Engadet, I sent you a tip about how I could make my $5 calculator say BOOBS, where's the respect?
My 7 year old has made better art on the iPhone then this! Seriously? This MUST be a joke, right?
No, you seven year old has NOT done better work.
Let's see something yoru 7 year old has actually done.
The stuff Hockney did really is great because it does have composition and a certain quality. The old complaint about all abstract art that it could be done by a child is simply nonsense.
Dr Yusuf:
Art done by 4 year olds also have composition and a certain childish quality.
>The stuff Hockney did really is great because it does have composition and a certain quality.
Yes, that flower in glass is breathtaking in it's composition and quality, it's certainly beyond the level of a 7 year old, that's at least 9 year old work.
>The old complaint about all abstract art that it could be done by a child is simply nonsense.
That what's art consumers say when people question why they spent obscene amounts of money on crap.
Dr. Yusuf Al-Kindi, Yeah. My kid HAS made better art. This garbage posted at the top of the page, which people like you feel is SO damn good, is no better then a child's doodle. In other words, it sucks shit. ESPECIALLY the "face." But, if you're a doctor, it makes sense. It more than likely matches the quality of your penmanship. :)
This is one thing the Apple tablet will be great at. I really hope they partner up with Wacom, or at least develop their own technology with equal quality. It also needs to be cheap, most artists aren't as well off as David Hockney.
Why are these considered so good?
They aren't meant to be good, it's 'modern' art. It's about money and celebrity... not skill.
It's like pop music and fashion, If enough people tell you something is good, you assume they must be right ;0)
I prefer artists like JW Waterhouse who is 'good' in the traditional sense:
http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=50
...that said, these are rough doodles, not highly polished works of art. I'm sure JW's sketch books would have been filled with things like this.
yeah but JW waterhouse probably wipes his arse with doodles like these. i dont think he'd stoop so low as to display them in a gallery.
david hockney is a tosser and so are all 'modern art'-ists
this is one of those few thibngs abt art that i detest... the glamorisation of insignifigance. i can appreciate these pieces as sketches or note taking of ideas but it is hubris to plow that into public space as art. its unpurposely unfinished and unrefined and using a bludgeon as a tool to convey an idea where a better tool is available. these rank up there with the guy who decided to shit in a can and hawked it off as art. look at the lines... they are clumsy and primitive, not by choice but because the tool used was the wrong choice. i would have a lot more respect if the artist actually did his homework rather than just picked up the closest tin can, shit in it and called it art.
It's not art if I can do it.
I'd pay upwards of $20 for this art.
Only if it came with an iPhone though.
Since when is it acceptable to make art using tools that handicap you. An iphone is not designed to paint on, so off course this does not compete with other approaches. I'm sick of this 'yes-off-course-canvas/photoshop-looks-better-but-then-again-this-is-more-difficult' bullshit. It's not an excuse.
LOL look at all these rabid MS Fanboys saying anything to discredit the iPhone!! This time around the MS fanboys are once again running their mouths off talking about art like they think they know something.
So Typical of them.
Last time these MS fanboy people and their kind did the same thing was when Engadget ran the news about Apple charging $10,000 to produce an EP for iTunes (graphic design, photography, video making/editing, coding, etc, etc). They started maliciously chastising Apple, accusing them of ripping off artists, music labels, being greedy, blah blah. Basically talking like they knew something. But then people that work in the media industry jumped in and said that the actual average industry cost is way above and beyond $10,000 for producing a media package like the iTunes EPs. So in fact Apple is being of great benefit to the music industry by charging less.
But as we see, the hordes of MS fanboys do not like to see positive Apple news.
do you live in like some weird head space where you are fighting the just and good fight against some kind of virtual 'software/hardware' army?. maybe you should tell this story in a comic book styleee with you in leotards and with a viking helmet leading a garrison of men in to certain death to defend a corporation which makes a quite nice mp3 player and phone.
"tonight we dine in starbucks, grraaagh"
I'm pretty sure it doesn't take a "rabid MS fanboy" to realize that art is shite. Take your meds?
@ N900
There you go, you and your kind just proved what I was saying. Fanatic MS fanboys.
That is not art, its just ugly !
Don't worry, this IS a joke.
Those pictures look like crap. The iPhone is obviously not a good medium for detail work.
The iPod Touch/iPhone can be used to create well detailed art, but it seems Hockney decided to be half-assed with it. Check my earlier post in the thread to see examples of what I mean.
I'm jealous.
Its one thing to say he does crap iphone art, and another to say he is a crap artist. That he definitley isn't.
This is news? My own small efforts on Brushes have proven to much greater avail........
http://twitpic.com/e7ll7
Not dissing, but is this meant to look like really, really good or something? I've seen much better almost everywhere else...
I like yours better.
Holy crapfest batman I'd never bother to save a image if I did something that horrible in photoshop. Yeah great it's fingerpainting on a touchscreen, still looks like crap polish a turd as much as you want though.