Huge Grand Canyon

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: the National Art Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The monumental work is large and has an unusual, strongly elongated format. The vast expanses of the American West stretch in front of the viewer and do not even fit on the 60 canvases that the artist used for his work. Setting an impossible task to depict the entire space visible to a person standing at the Grand Canyon, the artist uses several points of view, as if looking at it from different places at the same time. Hockney painted a picture from photographs taken at certain intervals, so the Grand Canyon is represented not only from different angles but also at different times of the day.