Spring arrives early in David Hockney’s iPad art exhibition

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David Hockney, Yosemite I, © 2013 David Hockney, used with permission de Young Museum.
David Hockney, Yosemite I, © 2013 David Hockney, used with permission de Young Museum.

The eastern U.S. is still getting pelted with snow, but spring is arriving a little early across the pond in Saltaire England thanks to David Hockney’s newest gallery of iPad artwork entitled ‘The Arrival of Spring.’

The famous pop artist’s exhibition of 33 pictures went on display today at the Salt Mill gallery in West Yorkshire. Each of the five-foot high framed pictures were drawn on Hockney’s iPad during the period when he lived in Bridlington and painted the Yorkshire woods for London’s Royal Academy.

Take a closer look at some of the piece below:

16 more pictures will be added to the exhibition later this year, with each piece depicting a specific day between January 1 and May 31 in 2011. More of Hockney’s iPad artwork recently appeared at San Francisco’s de Young Musuem last year.

Hockney introduced the world to joiner-photographs in the mid-1970’s and has also painted hundreds of portraits with oil and acrylic paints, but the artist eschewed those mediums for the iPad about five years ago when he started sketching little landscapes with his finger and set them to friends.

Salt Mills bought the 49 Hockney iPad paints for an undisclosed sum and converted part of the third floor at the mill into a spacious grey and white gallery.

“The important thing is that people can come in and look at the pictures for nothing.” Salts Mill director Robin Silver said. “They can spend as much or as little time as they like looking at them. That’s how art should be seen.”

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