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Me at home: huoorghghh six hours of youtube videos

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died

David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.

He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies.

But Hockney’s six-decade career cannot be defined by a single era. He produced perspective-shifting portraits using photo-collage, experimented with abstract landscape painting and, in later life, investigated the possibilities of creating artworks out of emerging 3D technology.

[...] While working on one of his LA paintings, Hockney took a series of reference photographs on a Polaroid camera and accidentally stumbled on the next stage of his career: photocollage, or “joiners” as he would term them. Through assembling multiple photographs together, Hockney could explore his fascination with perspective. The portraits he created of his mother and the British art dealer John Kasmin exhibited a strong cubist influence that drew comparisons with his idol, Picasso.

In later years, Hockney experimented in many new areas including set and costume design for operas and ballets. Developing technology fascinated the artist: as his career evolved, his art made use of the photocopier, the fax machine, the printer and the iPad – the latter allowing him to create reams of digital paintings that he would excitedly email friends and acquaintances. But his technological interests always came back to one thing: “I’m really only interested in technology that is about pictures,” he told Interview magazine in 2013. “I’m interested in anything that makes a picture.”

amazoogle

they're saying that Thursday will be falling on a Thursday this week. the rare double Thursday phenomenon

aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202

genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself “why does Tumblr even have a ‘Best Posts First’ feature? why would I want to see good posts?” and then I had to stop and consider that for a second

remainsoflilies

Mujer arreglándose el pelo / Woman fixing her hair by César Fernández Ardavín, c. 1920-1929

cugzarui

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

alexseanchai

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

flareonfloof

its a bit easier for astronomers

nerdynonnativenarnian

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

flareonfloof

are they hydrogen or helium

nerdynonnativenarnian

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

flareonfloof

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

nerdynonnativenarnian

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

flareonfloof

im an astrophysicist

nerdynonnativenarnian

but but, science is science?!

flareonfloof

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

katzeregi

meanbuddhist

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

jennelikejennay

turn your attention to The Character

#yes The Character

fuckrozanov

goodmorning this is your assigned shane of the day

#heated rivalry #peg... hole... really makes you think

cognitohazardous

no one is stupid in quite the same way as a tumblr user

if-i-was-a-wyrm

sonce the sports are happening big rn where i live i made a handy chart of all the phrases i use to communicate with my loved ones during these trying times. i thought others might find it useful too

ive discovered you can have whole conversations with people using just these phrases and none will be any the wiser that you dont even know what sport it is theyre talking about

#this is correct