THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013
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TECHNOLOGY
iPad art gains recognition in new exhibit
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SAN FRANCISCO — Happily hunched over his iPad, Britain's most celebrated living artist David Hockney is pioneering in the art world again, turning his index finger into a paintbrush that he uses to swipe across a touch screen to create vibrant landscapes, colorful forests and richly layered scenes.
In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 24, a man records how a painting made by David Hockney using an iPad takes shape at an exhibit in San Francisco. A sweeping new exhibit of Hockney's work includes about 150 iPad images.
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“It's a very new medium,” said Hockney. So now, in fact, he wasn't sure what he was creating until he began printing his digital images a few years ago. “I was pretty amazed by them actually,” he said, laughing. “I'm still amazed.”
A new exhibit of Hockney's work, including about 150 iPad images, opened Saturday in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, just a short trip for Silicon Valley techies who created both the hardware and software for this 21st-century reinvention of finger-painting.
The show is billed as the museum's largest ever, filling two floors of the de Young with a survey of works from 1999 to present, mostly landscapes and portraits in an array of mediums: watercolor, charcoal and even video. But on a recent preview day, it was the iPad pieces, especially the 12-foot high majestic views of Yosemite National Park
that drew gasps.
Already captured by famed photographer Ansel Adams, and prominent painters such as Thomas Hill and Albert Bierstadt, Hockney's iPad images of Yosemite's rocks, rivers and trees are both comfortingly familiar and entirely new.
In one wide open vista, scrubby, bright green pines sparkle in sunlight, backed by Bridalveil Fall tumbling lightly down a cliff side, the distinct granite crest of Half Dome looms in the background. In another, a heavy mist obscures stands of giant sequoias.
"He has such command of space, atmosphere and light," said Fine Arts Museums director Colin Bailey.
Other iPad images are overlaid, so viewers can see them as they were drawn, an animated beginning-to-end chronological loop. He tackles faces and flowers, and everyday objects: a human foot, scissors, an electric plug.
Some of the iPad drawings are displayed on digital screens, others, like the Yosemite works, were printed on six large panels. Hockey's technical assistants used large inkjet prints reproduce the images he created on his iPad.
digital artwork gain legitimacy in the notoriously snobby art world where computer tablet art shows are rare and prices typically lower than comparable watercolors or oils.
Exhibiting iPad images by a prominent artist in a significant museum gives the medium a boost, said art historians, helping
"I'm grateful he's doing this because it opens people's mind
month's MIT journal "Leonardo," Napii said that while iPad work is still novel, the physicality of painting and drawing have gone on for millennia.
Writing about the historic shift of drawing from prehistoric cave painting to digital tablets in this
"These gestures are as old as humans are," she said in an interview.
to the technology in a new way," said Long Island University Art Historian Maureen Nappi, although she described Hockney's iPad work as "gimmicky."
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can campaign and table for the election.
Candidates and coalitions currently have four weeks, five including election week, to table on campus.The proposed legislation would limit candidates to two weeks of tabling, including election week.
Chief of Staff Tyler Childress said the shorter time would force coalitions to focus on the issues and it would alleviate some of the election fatigue felt by students who are overwhelmed by the current campaign season.
"You're going to be gearing your energies toward what you're fighting for rather than the name branding that seems to happen in the spring semester," Childress said.
To view the full current rules and regulations for Student Senate elections go to http://www.scribd.com/KUStudentSenate and find the document labeled Student Senate Rules and Regulations August 2013.
The reforms are broken into two proposed bills, which will go to the Student Rights and University Affairs committees for discussion on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Edited by Casey Hutchins
Just a few more days to donate to the KU Fights Hunger program. There are food barrels in many campus buildings, including the
Libraries and Unions.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
- An 18-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 800 block of Oak Street on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia, open container, purchase or consumption of liquor by a minor. possession of controlled substance, cultivation or distribution of controlled substance and driving while intoxicated.A $3,450 bond was paid.
- A 19-year-old female was arrested yesterday on the 1100 block of Louisiana Street on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. A $500 bond was paid.
- A 19-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 1500 block of Kentucky Street on suspicion of battery, interfering with the duties of an officer and disorderly conduct. A $300 bond was paid.
Emily Donovan
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