2023-08-03 12:33:57
A portrait of musical icon Harry Styles, by artist David Hockney, has been unveiled ahead of a major exhibition of new paintings by the British artist due to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London this autumn. The pop star appears with his hair combed back, dressed in a red and yellow striped cardigan and a pearl necklace around his neck. The portrait began in May 2022, when Styles visited David Hockney in his studio in Normandy, France.
“David Hockney has been reinventing the way we see the world for decades,” Styles told ‘Vogue’. «It was a complete privilege to be painted by him».
The portrait is one of the more than 33 new works made by Hockney between 2021 and 2022, and will appear in the exhibition ‘David Hockney: Drawing from Life’, which opens on November 2 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. It is an updated version of a sample of portraits that the artist already did in 2020 in this museum. The exhibition included drawings in a variety of media, from pencil and ink to watercolor and the iPad. Hockney pioneered its use as a new art-making tool. Since then, this institution has undergone a major remodeling and renovation.
David Hockney, ‘Harry Styles’, 31 de mayo de 2022
Foto: Jonathan Wilkinson © David Hockney
With the latest additions in 2021 and 2022, the exhibition will feature some 160 works. In addition to the portrait of Harry Styles (which, without a doubt, will be a magnet for his many fans), portraits of family and friends will be shown, such as the textile designer Celia Birtwellthe artist’s mother and her partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima. Also, a new self-portrait of the artist in a cap and tweed suit, reports ‘Art Net’.
In addition, the exhibition will include pencil drawings made in Paris in the early 1970s, a selection of self-portraits from the 1980s and ‘My Parents and Myself’, a 1975 group portrait that Hockney abandoned, much to the upset of his parents. She later produced another version, ‘My Parents’ (1977), which belongs to the Tate, but the rejected work remained hidden until it was first presented to the public at the 2020 exhibition.
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