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Water Pouring into Swimming Pool Santa Monica
Presented by Jonathan Cheshire and Gareth Marshallsea in memory of Peter Coni 1994
abstraction
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
drainpipe
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
garden structures
landscape
Los Angeles, Santa Monica
movement
natural phenomena
places
splash
swimming pool
USA
water
<p>This lithograph was made in 1964, the year Hockney moved to Los Angeles. From his fascination with the swimming pool culture of California, Hockney became interested in the challenge of depicting the appearance and movement of water. It is, says Hockney, 'an interesting formal problem to represent water, to describe water, because it can be anything - it can be any colour, it's movable, it has no set visual description.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print lithograph
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2010-01-24
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Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
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David Hockney, London and Los Angeles 1960 - 1968
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11 October 2013 – 31 March 2014
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11 October 2013 – 31 March 2014
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Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, UK)
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5 February 2014 – 28 September 2014
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7 June 2014 – 28 September 2014
2014-09-28
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21 March 2019 – 4 August 2019
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Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
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M Woods Museum (Beijing, China)
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Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg, Germany)
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Centre for Fine Arts - BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium)
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Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
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8 July 2022 – 30 October 2022
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Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
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Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
2019-03-21
David Hockney
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Water Pouring into Swimming Pool, Santa Monica
support: 514 × 663 mm
Presented by Jonathan Cheshire and Gareth Marshallsea in memory of Peter Coni 1994
<p>When Hockney moved to Los Angeles in 1964, he was fascinated by the use of water for
irrigation and recreation in the semi-arid environment. He delighted in experimenting with various methods of depicting drops and sprays of water. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> was made at the instigation of the Atelier Matthieu in Zurich, and relates to a 1965
<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, <em>Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool, Santa Monica</em> (private collection). The depiction of water in these pictures is highly stylised. Hockney later said that water 'offered an opportunity for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstraction</span></a> - almost as
much a recurring desire as painting a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>' (Stangos, p.100). Hockney's 1964 lithographs marked a return to the technique after a gap of ten years.</p><p><strong>Further reading:</strong><br/>Nikos Stangos (ed.), <em>David Hockney by David
Hockney</em>, London 1976, p.100, reproduced p.116<br/>Marco Livingstone, <em>David Hockney</em>, revised edition, London 1987, pp.74-5<br/>Marco Livingstone, <em>David Hockney: Etchings and Lithographs</em>, exhibition catalogue, Waddington Graphics,
London 1988, [p.9], reproduced pl.13 in colour</p><p>Terry Riggs<br/>November 1997<!-- end text --></p>
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2005-09-15T00:00:00
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<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> was made in 1964, the year Hockney moved to Los Angeles. From his fascination with the swimming pool culture of California, Hockney became interested in the challenge of depicting the appearance and movement of water. It is, says Hockney, 'an interesting  formal problem to  represent water, to describe water, because it can be anything - it can be any colour, it's movable, it has no set visual description.'</p>
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abstraction architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents drainpipe emotions, concepts and ideas features formal qualities from recognisable sources garden structures landscape Los Angeles, Santa Monica movement natural phenomena places splash swimming pool USA water