#SLAPDASH ART FULL#
If anything, as the writer Elise Bell pointed out in her article about the roundel, it’s a nice little up yours to the endlessly dull and totally ignorable kind of public art our cities are absolutely full of. There’s nothing revolutionary or life-changing about it. It’s just some colourful public art by a big name.
But there’s a deeper malaise that’s being laid bare by the ire Hockney is engendering.īecause to anyone with any kind of love of modern art, this slapdash little logo is totally inoffensive. Part of me thinks, well, at least people are talking about art.
It has been called lazy, ugly and childish, and has elicited countless “I could do that” reactions. It follows on from a similar slapdash logo he whipped up for The Sun a couple of years back, all MS Paint aesthetics brought crashing into 2021.Īnd people can’t stand it. It’s childish, playfully naive, and full of intentional mistakes and digital smudgery. Armed with just an iPad, Hockney whipped up a cheeky little logo that must have taken him all of ten minutes, if that. But sometimes, art makes headlines and causes uproar on social media because the general public just really, really hates it.Įnter one of the most successful living painters, David Hockney, with a commission to redesign the Piccadilly Circus roundel.
Sharks in formaldehyde, unmade beds, bits of Blu Tack, statues of Christ submerged in piss, that sort of thing. When contemporary art makes the headlines or causes uproar on social media, it’s usually because it’s in some way shocking or offensive or (sometimes) shockingly and offensively pretentious.
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