Action Week 11th May 2006-David Hockney outtake 38/80

This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim. Watch the full film here: NOW AVAILABLE WITH SUBTITLES: ENG SDH, FR, DE, IT, KO The Rudston-Kilham road, fringed by trees planted in the 19th century. Painting at the height of Spring, a period of about 10 days which David calls “Action Week”.  One of my favourite quotes about Hockney comes from his art dealer the late Nicholas Wilder: “Hockney believes that art is a by-product - a by-product of another enterprise - an enterprise that is essentially speculative in nature.“ (David Hockney: Paintings of the Early 1960’s“ Andre Emmerich Gallery catalogue intro).    The painter Michael Craig-Martin made a similar point to me back in 2007. He believes the cultural outlook and career of modern artists are most crucially formed and fixed at that moment they decide to be artists, usually at art college or before. Thus he view