Queues are forming for the David Hockney exhibition which is currently running at the Royal Academy. It is the first major exhibition of new landscape works by Hockney featuring intensely coloured paintings inspired by the Yorkshire landscape.
Here we have a print from our Hockney collection, where the artist is concerned not by colour, but by the transparency of this very particular imaginary landscape: The Glass Mountain. It forms part of his series of illustrations for the Brothers Grimm fairy tales (dating 1969) - stories that had long enchanted him. Peter Webb, author of Portrait of David Hockney (1988) tells us that “Hockney chose Old Rinkrank because it starts with the words ‘A King built a glass mountain’, and he was fascinated by the problem of drawing a glass mountain. He made various attempts, even smashing a sheet of glass and drawing the ragged pieces piled up in a big heap, before finding the solution: he depicted a tree and a house with a glass mountain in front which distorts their reflection.”
Hockney considers this series to be one of his major successes.
Follow the links to see how he dealt with Rapunzel and Rumpelstilzchen.
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