In correlation with the exhibition opening, David Hockney contributed an article in the Financial Times. Titled “The media has lost its perspective,” Hockney discusses the changing landscape of visual and mass media, by dissecting its historical origins and questioning its future.
I am not a historian, nor even an art historian, but I have an interest in depiction and therefore a history of pictures.
Twelve years ago I wrote a book – Secret Knowledge – about the influence of technology on picture-making. Some art historians supported me, a few attacked it, but most ignored it, perhaps hoping it would go away. In the years since, I have become more convinced that we are witnessing a fundamental change in picture-making. This has far-reaching consequences for the media and the way we perceive the world. It will mark the end of the old order, which is no bad thing.
