Top 10 – Brian Sewell Art Attacks

Dec 24, 2016
by News Desk

10. Brian Sewell on David Hockney

Brian Sewell art attacks

“Hockney is not another Turner expressing, in high seriousness, his debt to the old master; Hockney is not another Picasso teasing Velázquez and Delacroix with not quite enough wit; here Hockney is a vulgar prankster, 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.”