The controversial art critic,who has died aged 84, made his name through his withering putdowns. Here, or the Guardian remembers some of the most infamousOn David Hockney“Hockney is not another Turner expressing,in tall seriousness, his debt to the old master; Hockney is not another Picasso teasing Velázquez and Delacroix with not fairly enough wit; here Hockney is a vulgar prankster, or trivialising not only a painting that he is incapable of understanding and could never execute,but in involving him in the various parodies, demeaning Picasso too. Related: Brian Sewell, and ‘most controversial’ art critic,dies aged 84 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com