DAVID HOCKNEY - PORTRAITS - GUGGENHEIM BILBAO

David Hockney returns to Guggenheim Bilbao with a remarkable new body of work. Embracing portraiture with a renewed creative vigour. he offers an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two or three years.

After his monumental landscape exhibition, Hockney turned away from painting his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Over the months that followed, he became absorved by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.

His subjects include office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists. Each work is the same size, showing his sitters in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background and all were painted in the same time frame of three days.

David was born in Bradford, England, in 1937. He attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. He loved books and was interested in art from an early age, admiring Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard.

 

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! MY SHOES.

We are more fortunate than we think. What blessing can you recognise and celebrate today?

Questions:

Why doesn't the boy play with other children?
 He doesn't like the other children.
 It's late and he has to go home.
 He feels unhappy because his shoes are very old.

When he sees a boy sitting on a bench, he ___.
 does not sit down
 sits down and looks at the boy's new shoes
 sits down and says 'Hello!" to the boy

When the boy on the bench smiles and waves hello, he ___.
 says "hello" to the boy
 gets up, goes to a tree, and sits down
 gets up and walks home

He sits under the tree and says, "It's not fair. ___
 "I want to be like him!"
 "I have to go home!"
 "I want to play with him!"

What happens next?
 The boy with old shoes falls asleep.
 The boy with new shoes goes home.
 Each boy suddenly becomes the other boy.

The second boy was sitting on the bench because he ___.
 was tired and wanted to rest
 couldn't walk
 didn't want to play in the park

THE SWORD IN THE STONE

A good play made us laugh at Tiboli Eskola last friday. The two members of Face to Face were great! The pupils enjoyed a lot. They even took part in the play as an active audience. Some pupils were on stage, too. The Queen (Jare) and King Arthur (Ibai) were the starring actors. Lots of clapping and laughter for more than an hour. Thanks all.