Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.
David HockneyGreat claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.
David HockneyYes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
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