Hockney says she didn’t offer to paint King Charles during the real visit | David Hockney

Renowned artist David Hockney He said he did not offer to paint King Charles when the monarch visited his home in London on Monday because he doesn’t know him quite well.

This is not the first time that Hockney moves away from Real’s painting. The 87 -year -old also refused a series of offers to paint the delay Queen Elizabeth II Because it only paints the people you know.

Speaking in an interview with The Times, before his latest art exhibition, Hockney said about the king’s visit to his Marylebone home: “He came on Monday for about an hour. But I didn’t offer to paint him”.

Elizabeth II said: “It is difficult to make the majesty … I thought, she is a truly majestic figure, and I could not see a way to do it”.

The artist born in Bradford declared in the interview that his photos were better if he knew the topic “really well” and criticized the portrait of Lucian Freud of the deceased queen. He said: “When you look at the queen, her skin is absolutely wonderful. It’s a very beautiful skin. Well, she didn’t understand it at all.”

In the interview, Hockney explained that he had returned to London from his former house in Normandy, France, in 2023 because of “intrusion”, since “people continued to shoot”.

The 87 -year -old painter Last show, called David Hockney 25It will open in Paris at the Fondation Louis Vuitton Art Museum and Cultural Center.

Hockney spoke of the new paintings he had produced from his MaryLebone home. One of his efforts, which calls the game within a comedy within a comedy and me with a cigarette, is a message to pro-Fumatore. “I am almost 88 years old and I didn’t think I would be here. I’m still a smoker, but I’m surviving,” he said.

“The other day I read in the newspaper that lung cancer was going up and smoking was going down. Well, what did he tell me? He told me he wasn’t really smoking.”

The frank artist also observed his perceived ascent of the office: “People are becoming very … overbearing. There are a lot of domineering people right now. They are small hits, right? And there are many. Bossy boots.”

Hockney, who began working in the early 1950s, is known for a larger spray (1967), the portrait of an artist (pool with two figures) (1972) and Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1971).

Although Hockney did not paint the deceased queen, she made a colorful glass window for her named The Queen’s Window, which was revealed in the Westminster abbey in 2018.