London, just like other major cities in the world, is full of people from different countries in the world. Apart from those who come in from other European countries, there are many that have come from Asia, Africa and America. Along with this great cultural diversity, it is also a fact that people who immigrate to London are mostly those who are ambitious and want to make it big in one of the biggest cities of the world. Being ambitious is very good, but as we all know ambitious people have an aggressive side to them.
I found this office furniture website the other day which simply blew my mind. I was all amazed and really enjoying looking at the office chairs, you know how it is, right? It was then, staring at the screen, that I knew I had been neglecting the arts and culture of the city of London: I had become a work zombie! I was beginning to enjoy looking for work furniture! I was beginning to turn into a table and chair junkie! It really wasn’t good and marked a new level of awfulness in the thing that was known as my boring office life (although I should say that the site was still really good, if you need office furniture). I soon shook myself out of my work trance, told myself that yes I liked my job but no I wouldn’t be brainwashed anymore, and set off on an online mission to find something else to look forward to…something which would be fun and enlightening…
the first proper, full-on exhibition of the great man’s landscape art..
I soon got my wish in the form of an advertisement for a brand-new David Hockney exhibition. It’s called A Bigger Picture, and it’s going to be on show at the Royal Academy of Arts from the date of 21st January to the 9th of April. Woo! Can you tell I am slightly excited?
Why should you be excited and all ants-in-your pants about this great coming of cultural significance? Well, I shall tell you my friend: this is going to be, without doubt – and according to the information I have been given – the first proper, full-on exhibition of the great man’s landscape art. The really intriguing thing, though, is the scale. Because we’re not talking small paintings here. We’re talking enormous works of art which are simply massive in scale…the kind of pieces which blow your mind the second you walk into the room!
If you still don’t know – and really, shame on you – the man known as David Hockney was born in 1937 in the fine city of Bradford. For the next 18 or so years he was in Yorkshire – although the interesting thing is that he didn’t actually focus on England as a subject until he was about 60 years old. Once he did, though, he became instantly well-known and an important figure in art almost over-night. In other words, you need to get yourself down to that exhibition as soon as the new year celebrations are over, or else you will regret it!
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