Focus Moving

Artist David Hockney (English, born 1937)

Date2018

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 35 1/2 × 45 1/2 inches (90.17 × 115.57 cm)
Framed: 38 3/8 × 48 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (97.49 × 122.25 × 6.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2019.22.18

SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in black pen.

InscribedOn image recto, lower right, in black pen: "16/25 / 2018"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 16/25

On View

Not on view

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DescriptionIrregular hexagonal image of seven wheeled utility carts (seemingly identical with some altered perspectives) and three wooden stools on a gridded floor. The carts are composed of three shelves each painted yellow, red, and blue; atop each cart is a large blue numeral (1-7). Resting in front of each stool is a blue numeral (8-10) written on a red circle.
On the wall above is a painterly illustration with numbered cubes and circles - there placement corresponds to the objects below. The brightly colored background includes dots along the top, stripes in varying directions, and the phrase “moving focus” written four times in between the numbered objects.
Gallery Label

Gallery Label

This image by painter and photographer David Hockney is the only work in this exhibition created using the aid of computer software. Hockney combined individual image captures of numbered carts and stools in a colorful arrangement. Elements in the foreground correspond with a painting in the background. The work is constructed such that the receding lines do not correspond to a fixed focal point. Hockney here challenges traditional laws of linear perspective used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Pace/MacGill Gallery by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2019;
Given by The Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2019.

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