David Hockney is known the world over for his dreamy paintings, often featuring saturated, bright color palettes.
And now he’ll also be known for a fairly drab, black & white (& brown) nude portrait of Tom Daley, who modeled for the artist last August.
Hockney created the piece, which is quite emotive for being so subdued, using charcoal and crayon on canvas.
Daley visited his portrait’s new home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art over the weekend, giving a sort of lackadaisical reenactment for the cameras. How fitting.
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“When you have a Hockney nude in LACMA,” Daley wrote on Instagram.
He continued: “We went sightseeing as a family, and my mum saw me naked…we made a funny VLOG about it.”
Here’s the aforementioned funny vlog:
“Well that was definitely weird. My mum and my son seeing me naked. I know my mum’s seen me naked, but I was very young when that last happened,” Tom says in the video.
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Looks nothing like him! There is a hot actual nudepic of Tom online, he Is uncut and HUGE!
ptb2016
Oh where? Love to see this!
offroadnutz
That is not a very good representation of Tom, unfortunately it gets front page billing here at Queerty. If the editors feel that it’s a piece of trash why give it from page billing?
Kangol
Probably because it’s 1) of Tom Daley and 2) by one of the great living gay artists, David Hockney, who’s been painting, drawing, making photographs, designing opera sets, etc., for over 60 years. If you aren’t familiar with his definitely give it a peek. This portrait of Tom Daley is nowhere near among his best work, especially his drawings and painted portraits, including nudes, many set in California.
Chrisk
That’s so cute. Lance can have a new bestie girlfriend too since they’re probably about the same age.
Doug
I know they’re probably not comfortable with doing it, but it would be great to see the baby…
NateOcean
Is this the same artist that did the Lucille Ball statue?
brianlange
You want to see me naked?