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Win tickets to see David Hockney RA: A BIGGER PICTURE

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. 

David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture is open from the 21 January to 9 April 2012 at the Royal Academy of Arts’
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Although closely associated with Pop Art and California, where he has lived for much of his life, the forthcoming exhibition and accompanying catalogue redefine David Hockney RA as an important painter of the English countryside. The exhibition David Hockney RA, A Bigger Picture presents, for the first time, his recent landscape paintings of the Yorkshire Wolds.

In the last decade Hockney has returned to painting in the open air, observing with honesty and intensity the scenery remembered from school holidays spent in East Yorkshire. These works convey the drama and splendour of nature and the pathos of our relationship with it, an age-old subject treated by Hockney with a modern eye, often informed by his interest in photography and digital media. Edith Devaney, curator, says Hockney has become "so close to the changing seasons and light, so attuned, that he'll get up at 4am to catch the light. He calls the time when the blossom comes out 'action week'."

The exhibition will also present a number of Hockney's works painted from the Fifties onwards.These include the photo-collages of the Eighties and Grand Canyon paintings of the late Nineties which put the Yorkshire works in context and highlight the striking relationship between past works and his current thinking and practice.

Book tickets

To book tickets please call 0844 209 0051 or visit www.royalacademy.org.uk

Win tickets to the exhibition

For your chance to win a pair of tickets to the exhibition please send your name and contact number to the Royal Academy of Arts at competitions@akauk.com with "Hockney/LSBU" in the subject line by Monday 20 February.

Terms and conditions

  • Tickets valid Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm and Fridays 6pm-10pm between 21 February – 26 March 2012.
  • Subject to availability
  • No cash alternative
  • Travel and additional expenses not included