David Hockney
In this new series, six major contemporary painters create pictures that exist only on your television set at home. For the first time, artists like Howard Hodgkin, Sir Sidney Nolan , Richard Hamilton and tonight, David Hockney , are confronted with the extraordinary Quantel
Paintbox, a computer that offers an electronic, and infinitely adaptable, palette and brush, and that stores and recalls each step of the process of picture-making.
In a day-long session,
David Hockney paints directly on to the television screen - studies of his London studio, and a portrait of Francis Bacon - and as the day progresses he describes his reactions to this challenging new technology. 'I've no doubt it's a new medium. You're drawing with light on glass, and it gives a richness of colour that even paint can't give. It's a picture that doesn't exist in any other form.'
Videotape editor SALLY YEADON Art advisor MARK GLAZEBROOK Director DAVID GOLDSMITH Executive producers
MICHAEL DEAKIN and LESLIE MEGAHEY
A GRIFFIN production for BBCtv
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