los angeles
art
david hockney
interview by DONATIEN GRAU
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
“I’m English: I can’t be anything else. But I’m also a Los Angeleno, and I think of myself as an English Los Angeleno,” says David Hockney in this interview, in which he pays tribute to LA — the city that changed his palette, his life, made him famous, and still reverses him. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA] just showed his recent works, “82 Portraits and 1 Still-life.” Constantly traveling back and forth between LA and London since the mid-’60s, he is the first painter to capture the LA lifestyle.
DONATIEN GRAU — Coming to live here in Los Angeles in the 1960s must have been a great change for you.
DAVID HOCKNEY — Well, I came because I was being pestered in London. I’m always being pestered in London, in fact. I…