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Food for the Soul: A Man Who Never Stops Looking

David Hockney Show in Paris

June 5, 2025

David Hockney. Bigger Trees near Warter or Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, 2007. Oil on 50 canvases (36 x 48″ each) 457.2 x 1219.2 cm (180 x 480 Inches) © David Hockney. Photo Credit: Prudence Cuming Associates Tate, U.K.

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout

Sometimes, with artists who died young, we can only wonder what greatness they would have achieved had they lived long enough. Such a list could include Raphael—the wunderkind of the mid-Renaissance—the talented Impressionists Frédéric Bazille and Gustave Caillebotte, who could have created masterpieces had they lived as long as Monet, and Egon Schiele and August Macke, geniuses of Vienna’s early 1900s art who both died in their 20s. Then, there are other artists whose late output did not match their early genius. Botticelli’s late art is less luminous and interesting than his early paintings, and Giorgio de Chirico will always be admired most for his early Surrealist art.

David Hockney is in neither category. He has had time to create, evolve, and grow, and he has only become better with age. He is now 88 years old, and he announced that the David Hockney 25 exhibition that recently opened at Fondation Louis Vuitton is to be his last show. Hopefully not, but let’s take a look at this show, which is certainly the most important art event of  the year.

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