David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh | INTERVIEW Hockney: ‘His paintings are full of movement. What people love about Van Gogh’s paintings is that all the brush marks are visible and you can see how they are painted. When you’re drawing one blade of grass you’re looking and then you see more. And then you see the other blades of grass and you’re always seeing more. Well, that’s exciting to me and it was exciting to Van Gogh. I mean, he saw very clearly! | History of Art

David Hockney has spent his life asking a simple but radical question: how do we really see? From Polaroids to iPads, fax machines to photocopiers, he’s turned everyday tools into portals for new ways of looking. Long before “digital art” became a buzzword, Hockney was already treating technology not as a threat to tradition, but as a fresh medium to capture time, space, and feeling. His art reminds us that seeing isn’t passive — it’s active, layered, and always evolving. And if history has show