Vivid large paintings inspired by the landscape of East Yorkshire. This is the project that David Hockney has created for the galleries of the Royal Academy of Art, and stars in the exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, along with drawings and captures that illustrate the creative process of the series. The exhibition, promised long ago, is the result of 50 years of exploration in the field of landscape painting, in which the artist has experimented with perspective, colors, the beauty of the passing of seasons and nature's own growth cycles in Yorkshire.

A process that began using a Polaroid and, more recently, has relied on new technologies thanks to the possibilities offered by the iPhone and the iPad. These are the materials that accompany the great mosaics – larger pieces are composed of modules that break landscapes into fragments – to illustrate the derived experimental results in surprising canvases based on visual experience and the skills and tricks of human eye perception.

Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney went to the Bradford School of Art before studying at the Royal College (from 1959 to 1962). His recognition within the international art scene was established while he was still a student, thanks to the exhibition Young Contemporaries, which announced the birth of British pop art. In the 1960s he settled in Los Angeles, where he worked until 1991, when he was elected member of the British Royal Academy of Art.

David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture has been organized by the Royal Academy in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The exhibition is curated by independent curator Marco Livingstone and Edith Devaney of the London Academy. From there, the exhibition will travel to Spain and fill the temporary exhibition halls of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao this spring. Alejandro Martínez

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