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Swimming pools became a staple of Hockney's oeuvre early on in his career. Flying into Los Angeles for the first time in 1963, Hockney looked out of the airplane window and was immediately captivated by the striking blues of the countless swimming pools below. In California he found inspiration and a place that allow him the freedom to be exactly who he was.
Hockney's Lithograph of Water Made of Lines and a Green Wash exemplifies this approach to depicting water. Using delicate washes and strong lines in blue and green, the print captures shifting reflections and shadows in the pool's depths. Part of his Paper Pools series, this work reflects a pivotal moment in his career, where he expanded his printmaking practice to examine the challenge of portraying water's ever-changing surface. Through these works, Hockney transformed a familiar subject into a rich exploration of light, space, and identity.
"It is an interesting formal problem; it is a formal problem to represent water, to describe water, because it can be anything. It can be any colour, and it has no set visual description" —David Hockney