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‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life
He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households ‘He changed the world just by looking at it’ Obituary: David Hockney Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash , his most famous painting, reproductions have become a visual motif in gay domestic life. I’ve seen framed posters, prints and postcards of the work – which captures the moment after a person jumps off a diving board into an otherwise still cyan blue swimming pool – in countless gay households. In my flat, it appears on a cushion cover that I bought after seeing the real thing at Hockney’s 2017 Tate Britain retrospective . It’s fitting that A Bigger Splash is now emblematic of this pioneer. As an out gay artist who depicted same-sex des
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life, He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households ‘He changed the world just by looking at it’ Obituary: David Hockney Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash , his most famous painting, reproductions have become a visual motif in gay domestic life. I’ve seen framed posters, prints and postcards of the work – which captures the moment after a person jumps off a diving board into an otherwise still cyan blue swimming pool – in countless gay households. In my flat, it appears on a cushion cover that I bought after seeing the real thing at Hockney’s 2017 Tate Britain retrospective . It’s fitting that A Bigger Splash is now emblematic of this pioneer. As an out gay artist who depicted same-sex des
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