M, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Los Angeles Artists clinical aesthetics

clinical aesthetics

creating multiple layers of engagement with the viewer

The print demonstrates the artist's skillful balance of innocence and rebellion through his distinctive large-headed character with expressive features

immersive forms—a prescient vision considering today's digital streaming landscape

showcasing a bromeliad plant rendered in his distinctive flattened perspective and bold graphic style

M, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Los Angeles Artists clinical aestheticsDavid Hockney's letter M comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A single M painted in cornflower blue, its strokes overlapping into a row of peaks so the letter reads as a line of mountains, white paper and pale negative triangles flashing between the summits. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise