Image: David Hockney, A diver, paper pool 17 1978, handcoloured pressed paper pulp. NGA 79.2343.1-12, © David HockneyImage: Kenneth Tyler, David Hockney taking Polaroid shots of Tyler pool for the ‘Paper Pools’ series with friends looking on and ‘Day Pool with Three Blues’ framed as a screen in the background, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1979, photograph. NGA 180937 David Hockney moved to the United States from England in the early 1960s. The social and environmental conditions of […]

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by David Greenhalgh, Curatorial Assistant, Kenneth Tyler Collection. Roy Lichtenstein’s visual vocabulary of black outlines, block colour and Benday dots is well known. It was a style derived from commercial printing techniques and the distinct look of American comic books. But before his iconic Pop Art, Lichtenstein painted in the style of the Abstract Expressionists. From 1957 to 1960, he abandoned figuration to create large, colourful and patterned work, often using his shirt sleeve to push paint across canvas in […]

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