{"id":2512,"date":"2011-08-11T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:06:11","slug":"david-hockneys-fresh-flowers-drawings-on-iphones-and-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"David Hockney&#8217;s Fresh Flowers: Drawings on iPhones and iPads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/UNTITLED_22_JULY_20101-Hockney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2446\" title=\"&quot;UNTITLED, 22 JULY 2010, 1&quot;IPAD DRAWING\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00a0DAVID HOCKNEY\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/UNTITLED_22_JULY_20101-Hockney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/strong>&#8220;UNTITLED, 22 JULY 2010, 1&#8243;IPAD DRAWING\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2 DAVID HOCKNEY<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 8, 2011\u00a0&#8211; January 1, 2012<br \/>\nRoloff Beny Gallery, Level 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/icc\">Institute for Contemporary Culture<\/a> presents the North American debut of this cutting-edge exhibition, which reveals David Hockney\u2019s extraordinary use of this novel new artistic medium and its impact on shaping visual culture today. Hockney is one of the world\u2019s most acclaimed contemporary artists, and <em>Fresh Flowers<\/em> is his first major show in Canada in over two decades. The exhibition features approximately 200 iPhone and iPad drawings displayed on 20 iPod Touches and 20 iPads.<\/p>\n<p>Hockney began working with the iPhone in 2008.\u00a0 Since then, he has created hundreds of finger-drawn images, ranging in subject matter from flowers and self-portraits to landscapes and still life. More than 20 Hockney drawings in the exhibition will feature playback animations, allowing viewers insight into the artist\u2019s creative process as they view the works being drawn from start to finish. <em>Fresh Flowers<\/em> will also feature two films featuring Hockney working on an iPad, eight large-scale animated projections of recent iPad drawings, and a nine-minute triptych slide show with an additional 169 images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/UNTITLED29_JUNE_2009-Hockney-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2447\" title=\"&quot;UNTITLED, 29 JUNE 2009&quot;IPHONE DRAWING\u00a9 DAVID HOCKNEY\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/UNTITLED29_JUNE_2009-Hockney-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Fresh Flowers<\/em> marks the ROM\u2019s first WiFi accessible exhibition, so visitors can share their experience online, in real time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/exhibitions\/special\/graphics\/fondation.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Project initiated by the Fondation Pierre Berg\u00e9 \/ Yves Saint Laurent, Paris.<br \/>\nCharlie Scheips, Guest Curator. Ali Tayar, Exhibition Designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 8, 2011 &#8211; January 1, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hockney began working with the iPhone in 2008.  Since then, he has created hundreds of finger-drawn images, ranging in subject matter from flowers and self-portraits to landscapes and still life. More than 20 Hockney drawings in the exhibition will feature playback animations, allowing viewers insight into the artist\u2019s creative process as they view the works being drawn from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=2512\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}