David Hockney tree stump wrecked by ‘mean’ vandal (From York Press)
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David Hockney tree stump wrecked by ‘mean’ vandal
10:44am Wednesday 21st November 2012 in News
The vandalised tree stump near Bridlington yesterday
ARTIST David Hockney says the vandalism of a famous tree stump which has featured in many of his recent paintings is an “act of spite”.
The stump, which Hockney describes as his totem, has been cut down and sprayed with red graffiti. It has inspired much of his recent depictions of The Wolds, such as Winter Timber, which he painted in 2009.
Hockney learned of the incident, at the spot a few miles from Bridlington, after returning from Cologne, which is hosting his record-breaking exhibition, A Bigger Picture. Speaking in a national newspaper, the Bridlington-based artist said: “It was just an unbelievably mean-spirited gesture.
“It is something that has made me depressed. It was just a spite. There are loads of very mean things here now in Britain.”
He said: “It had been cut down a while back because it was dead but I liked the way it was and I said to the landowners: ‘Leave it that way,’ and they did, and then somebody else comes along with a big saw. It must have taken two hours to do.”
In January 2012 The Royal Academy of Arts in London staged the first major exhibition in the UK of David Hockney’s landscape works, David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture.
More than 70 per cent of the work he exhibited used East Yorkshire as its inspiration and was specially created for the exhibition’s Main Gallery spaces, including a series of large scale works.
The world-renowned artist has now produced a series of sketches depicting the remains of the tree stump.
Comments(18)
Pedro
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12:52pm Wed 21 Nov 12
BioLogic
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1:16pm Wed 21 Nov 12
alfie
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1:58pm Wed 21 Nov 12
an-other-resident
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2:11pm Wed 21 Nov 12
lowbeam
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2:23pm Wed 21 Nov 12
As an "Artist" you must recognize that graffiti is an artform,some I have seen are,in my opinion better than some of your work
lowbeam
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3:21pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Gary Gilmores Eyes
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3:24pm Wed 21 Nov 12
‘Surprised no-one has mentioned PP in the foreground’
On topic:
Nice big log for the wood burner there!
Comedy Section:
That’s definitely not PP as the cyclist in the picture is on the correct side of the road not gesticulating wildly nor swearing at other at other legitimate road users who pay their vehicle excise duty.
Besides Bridlington already has a village idiot!
pedalling paul
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4:11pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Gary Gilmores Eyes wrote:It definitely isn't me because I was not there.....and the road looks like a local one which is directly funded by the local Highway Authority ie NYCC from Council Tax income..
an-other-resident says... 2:11pm Wed 21 Nov 12
‘Surprised no-one has mentioned PP in the foreground’
On topic:
Nice big log for the wood burner there!
Comedy Section:
That’s definitely not PP as the cyclist in the picture is on the correct side of the road not gesticulating wildly nor swearing at other at other legitimate road users who pay their vehicle excise duty.
Besides Bridlington already has a village idiot!
Vehicle Excise Duty (wrongly called Road Tax by some but you managed to get it right....) goes into a big pot with all our other national taxes. Some of that mix goes to the Highways Agency who fund mways plus strategic trunk roads.
The only road directly maintained by the HA in the Brid area is the A64.
Right, who's next......!
PKH
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5:00pm Wed 21 Nov 12
pedalling paul wrote:The A64 goes nowhere near Brid & Brid is in the East Riding of Yorkshire not NYCC
Gary Gilmores Eyes wrote:It definitely isn't me because I was not there.....and the road looks like a local one which is directly funded by the local Highway Authority ie NYCC from Council Tax income..
an-other-resident says... 2:11pm Wed 21 Nov 12
‘Surprised no-one has mentioned PP in the foreground’
On topic:
Nice big log for the wood burner there!
Comedy Section:
That’s definitely not PP as the cyclist in the picture is on the correct side of the road not gesticulating wildly nor swearing at other at other legitimate road users who pay their vehicle excise duty.
Besides Bridlington already has a village idiot!
Vehicle Excise Duty (wrongly called Road Tax by some but you managed to get it right....) goes into a big pot with all our other national taxes. Some of that mix goes to the Highways Agency who fund mways plus strategic trunk roads.
The only road directly maintained by the HA in the Brid area is the A64.
Right, who's next......!
bob the builder
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5:32pm Wed 21 Nov 12
PKH wrote:Well done, hoist by his own bicycle chain!
pedalling paul wrote:The A64 goes nowhere near Brid & Brid is in the East Riding of Yorkshire not NYCC
Gary Gilmores Eyes wrote:It definitely isn't me because I was not there.....and the road looks like a local one which is directly funded by the local Highway Authority ie NYCC from Council Tax income..
an-other-resident says... 2:11pm Wed 21 Nov 12
‘Surprised no-one has mentioned PP in the foreground’
On topic:
Nice big log for the wood burner there!
Comedy Section:
That’s definitely not PP as the cyclist in the picture is on the correct side of the road not gesticulating wildly nor swearing at other at other legitimate road users who pay their vehicle excise duty.
Besides Bridlington already has a village idiot!
Vehicle Excise Duty (wrongly called Road Tax by some but you managed to get it right....) goes into a big pot with all our other national taxes. Some of that mix goes to the Highways Agency who fund mways plus strategic trunk roads.
The only road directly maintained by the HA in the Brid area is the A64.
Right, who's next......!
Wanderer in Canada
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5:56pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Not sure I can help PP with it moving into NYCC though. It's not been in the same administrative area since before 1974.
pedalling paul
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9:32pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Gary Gilmores Eyes
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7:50am Thu 22 Nov 12
Oh you silly billies. The point is that the only road in that neck of the woods that is managed by the Highways Agency, hence with a smidgeon of VED contribution by motor vehicle owners, is the A64’
So easy to get a bite with so predictable a response!
Further material to prove the status of Oxygen Thief!
again
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8:42am Thu 22 Nov 12
offa
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2:51pm Thu 22 Nov 12
WoldsRedneck
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9:13pm Thu 22 Nov 12
Gary Gilmores Eyes
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3:11pm Fri 23 Nov 12
On analysis, almost everyone who reads the Press and makes on-line comments is a moronic Philistine’
I take it that you include yourself in that description, based upon your own obviously in depth scientific analysis by also reading the press and posting your own comments?
By the way the definition of Philistine: a person who refuses to see the beauty or the value of art, literature, music or culture in any form.
Would you not have to be aware of the fact that this particular tree stump features heavily in Mr Hockney’s art to be a philistine because otherwise it’s just a tree stump with a minorities subjective opinion on its artistic noteworthiness?
I personally just think it’s a source of woodburning fuel yet to be utilized to its full effect!
As for moronic, well that’s a different argument for a different day! Although PP does a good line on that! ask him.
RingoStarr says...
11:41am Wed 21 Nov 12