A Bigger Card Players

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A Bigger Card Players

Artist David Hockney British, born 1937

Date2015

Dimensions72 x 69 3/4 in.

MediumPhotographic drawing printed on paper, mounted on Dibond

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, by exchange

Object number

2015.47

Not on View

Collections

Works on Paper

Published ReferencesHockney, David, David Hockney: Painting and Photography, London, Annely Juda Fine Art; Venice, California, L.A. Louver, 2015, repr. (col.) p. [7].

Exhibition HistoryVenice, California, L.A. Louver [and Annely Juda Fine Art in London] Painting and Photography , July 15 - September 19, 2015.

Label TextThough the cheap folding card table in David Hockney’s “photographic drawing” is far more utilitarian than its painted and gilded ancestors displayed below, it still serves to facilitate a competitive card game among friends—in this case, three men in the artist’s studio, eyes cast downward and intent on the game at hand. Hockney has long been interested in perspective and human perception and in blurring the boundaries between painting, drawing, and photography. Into this collage of photographs, he introduces multiple vanishing points, which are especially noticeable in the trapezoidal shape of the gaming table and the position of the seated players—a visual playfulness reinforced by the image of one of his own paintings of a similar scene on the wall. The multiple perspectives give the image, according to Hockney, “an almost 3D effect without the glasses.”