Hide, Seek: We Two Boys Together Clinging by David Hockney
Discussion by David C. Ward, cocurator of Hide, Seek and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery. Even though homosexuality was illegal in England until 1967, David Hockney presented his homosexuality directly, as integral to his art. While his paintings from the early 1960s did use coded referencesto lovers and other gay referencesthe overriding avowal of male desire made these paintings a commentary on England s proscriptions. And Hockney openly stated his intent to propagandize for something t
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