(NRP - December 7, 2010)
When artist David Hockney first got an iPhone about two years ago, he
immediately realized it was a new medium for creativity. "Incredible
little thing, really, because it was like a sketchbook and a paintbox
all in one," he said. Better, even: "No cleaning up. No mess." That's
because he's painting with an app called Brushes - a small virtual
paintbox on the phone's screen, into which Hockney dips a finger - or
10 - and makes pictures. Then he moved on to the iPad. At a gallery in
Paris, a riot of non-paint paintings on luminous digital screens. One
wall at the gallery is hung with 20 iPhones; a second wall carries 20
iPads. http://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/131854461/in-paris-a-display-from-hockney-s-pix... (thanks to Joe Sterling!)
immediately realized it was a new medium for creativity. "Incredible
little thing, really, because it was like a sketchbook and a paintbox
all in one," he said. Better, even: "No cleaning up. No mess." That's
because he's painting with an app called Brushes - a small virtual
paintbox on the phone's screen, into which Hockney dips a finger - or
10 - and makes pictures. Then he moved on to the iPad. At a gallery in
Paris, a riot of non-paint paintings on luminous digital screens. One
wall at the gallery is hung with 20 iPhones; a second wall carries 20
iPads. http://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/131854461/in-paris-a-display-from-hockney-s-pix... (thanks to Joe Sterling!)