David Hockney
Mulholland Drive
1980
David Hockney's 'Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio' (1980), a vast 218 × 617 cm canvas, offers an aerial, almost map-like view of the twisting Mulholland Drive across the Hollywood Hills that Hockney drove every morning to his Los Angeles studio. Stitching together multiple vantage points from memory — a technique borrowed in equal measure from Chinese handscroll painting and Cubist collage — the picture turns a daily commute into a dazzling topographic landscape. It has been a permanent highlight of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Hockney holdings and is one of the defining images of his California years.
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