No se puede detener la primavera

When he was eighty years old, David Hockney sought for the first time the tranquility of nature: a place to admire the sunset and the passing of the seasons, a place to stay out of the madness of the world. Thus, the scourge of COVID-19 and the confinement hardly changed life in La Grande Cour, a century-old country house in Normandy where Hockney had set up a studio a year earlier, in time to paint the arrival of spring. What's more, he even enjoyed the mandatory isolation as an opportunity to pursue his art with greater devotion. Spring cannot be stopped is a manifesto that reaffirms the ability of art to distract and inspire us. Based on a great deal of recent correspondence and conversations between Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford, this book also includes an unpublished selection of the new iPad drawings that Hockney created in Normandy, as well as works by Van Gogh, Monet and Bruegel. , among other artists. After a brilliant career outside of criticism and tradition, Hockney remains fully focused on the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees. He has a lot to teach us, not only about how to look ... but also about how to live.