Hockney Retrospective
Image: metmuseum.org
A Cresskill, New Jersey, resident, Nanci Perle Kushner maintains a strong community presence through volunteer work at Englewood Hospital. Nanci Kushner also has a passion for cultural activities and enjoys trying out new restaurants and attending theatrical performances and museum exhibits.
Through February 25, 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting a major retrospective of David Hockney that is uniquely designed as a series of separately curated mini-exhibitions. At the center of the exhibition are large-scale depictions of the pool, garden, and wraparound terrace at Hockney’s home in Los Angeles.
Far from simple depictions of a painter’s life, they incorporate reverse and multiple perspectives in ways that carry on the legacies of Cubism, Fauvism, and Post-Impressionism. The palette expands on one pioneered by Matisse in a way that is vibrantly Hockney’s own and combines expansive colors with “fastidious details.”
As the New York Times puts it, the 80-year-old Hockney imbues his paintings with an exuberant visual sense that captures “forthright joy and forward motion” as he explores how life and art serve to feed each other.
Nanci Kushner 
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