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David Hockney, Grand Canyon II<\/em>, 2017,\u00a0<\/strong>acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 96″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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David Hockney\u2019s latest painterly passion, the results of which are currently on display at the Pace Gallery in New York City<\/a>, consists of an elaboration of his ongoing fascination with reverse perspective, this time by way of notched hexagonal canvases, such as the one above. As I discussed in my catalogue essay for the show, this current round in his interest was in part spurred by his encounters with the thinking of an early-twentieth-century Russian Orthodox monk<\/a>, but for my own part, I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of \u00a0the work of Trevor and Ryan Oakes, young identical twin artists whose ideas I\u2019ve been following for several years (as has David, after I introduced them to him).<\/p>\n

Unlike the sorts of identical twins who develop secret languages from infancy, Trevor and Ryan (born in 1982), out of West Virginia and before that Colorado, had been carrying on a conversation, virtually since toddlerhood, on the nature of bifocal vision\u2014what it is like, that is, to see with two eyes. (Around age ten, their parents once told me, they could be found sitting on stumps out in the woods, twenty feet apart, trying to work out what the depth perception might be of a dragon with eyes that far apart.) Notwithstanding their tender years, they\u2019d been thinking about this stuff a long time\u2014almost as far back as David when he started making his Polaroid collages. And as it happens, the ideas that seem most pertinent to Hockney\u2019s current concerns are the twins\u2019 theories on depth perception, which they developed when studying together at Cooper Union as they developed a system for making camera-obscura-exact drawings deploying no other equipment than their own two eyes (a facility that obviously came to fascinate Hockney).<\/p>\n

For at one point they began noticing the way that our noses are continually present in our fields of vision, though not (as one might expect) in the center of that field but rather to the two sides. Try a few experiments and see for yourself. Extend your right arm at shoulder height straight out to your side with the thumb of your right hand pointing upward; now, with your head facing forward (perpendicular to your arm) and your right eye closed, gaze past your nose with your left eye as you slowly slide your extended right arm forward until you can make out the thumb emerging from beyond the interference posed by your nose. That point will likely be further along than you were expecting. Try the same thing with your right eye and your left arm. The point is that it is only in the relatively narrow area between the two emerging thumbs that you can be said to have actual bifocal stereoscopic depth perception. The twins actually drew out the results of the experiment, plotting all the points where their thumbs emerged.<\/p>\n

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Ryan\u2019s depth of field, charted.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Note how even though one\u2019s overall field of vision is much wider (and perfectly stitched and modulated laterally from one side to the next), one\u2019s nose (to both sides) and eyebrows above frame a shield-like area, which is the only field where Ryan, in this instance, can be said to experience the world with real depth perception. (The twins would presently surmise that this is indeed why shields came to be shaped like shields\u2014only partially, that is, because swordsmen needed to protect their cores, but more so because that specific shape over time proved the lightest and most economic, one that also assured that one\u2019s own offensive lunges would occur outside the field of one\u2019s opponent\u2019s depth perception. Around the same time, Oliver Sacks, apprised of this effect, noted that there was a considerable literature to the effect that lepers who have lost their noses have heightened depth perception, and that furthermore that may explain why one sees so many flat-nosed boxers\u2014not because their noses have gotten bashed in across their careers but rather because in the same way that abnormal height privileges basketball players, flat noses, and hence wider fields of depth perception, probably privilege people who make their living at fist-to-fist combat.)<\/p>\n

The point here, though, is that one is always aware of one\u2019s nose to either side\u2014even if only subliminally, as a kind of unconscious barometric pressure\u2014because the brain is constantly occluding the nose to each side and filling in the scene with information it is getting from the other eye. You don\u2019t believe it?\u00a0 Okay, try this: Close your right eye, and with your left look to your far right. There\u2019s your nose, correct? Now do the opposite. Same thing. Now, though, with both eyes open, look to your left and right, and you won\u2019t see any nose, even though you know your eyes are seeing it. (Your brain is seamlessly stitching the full view together out of information coming from both eyes, even though it\u2019s only the central shield-like area that is actually experiencing depth perception.)<\/p>\n

And the fascinating thing here is that as the years passed, the twins began noticing curious sorts of trianglelike shapes emerging to either side (but especially on the side of the dominant eye) in the lower left and\/or right quadrants of the canvases of painters all across history. With Rembrandt, for instance, or C\u00e9zanne:<\/p>\n

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Paul C\u00e9zanne, View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph<\/em>,\u00a01887,\u00a0<\/strong>oil,\u00a02′ 2″ x 2′ 8″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Or Morris Louis and Roy Lichtenstein:<\/p>\n

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Morris Louis, Delta Theta<\/em>, 1961.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Roy Lichtenstein, Little Aloha<\/em>, 1962.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Or perhaps, most fascinatingly, with Matisse, in whose famous Goldfish<\/em> painting one makes out not only the specific shape of his slightly bulbous nose but also the shape of his distinctive round glasses (and even the shape of the eye itself, projected onto the cylindrical aquarium\u2019s aqueous bottom):<\/p>\n

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Matisse, The Goldfish<\/em>,\u00a01912.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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For that matter, Hockney himself was displaying such tendencies long before he met the twins or began any of these notched experiments.<\/p>\n

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David Hockney, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Mo<\/em>nica<\/em>,\u00a01990.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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To be clear, the twins are not arguing that these effects result from conscious choices on the parts of the artists in question\u2014merely that artists who are by definition surveyors of the visual field might be more sensitive to the barometric pressures evinced by their (otherwise unnoticed) noses, and that that sensitivity could be expected to register in their renderings of the world.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I\u2019ve begun to wonder lately whether one reason Hockney\u2019s notched hexagons feel so somehow right, or at any rate seem to evoke the phenomenological feel of one\u2019s actual depth of field, is that they are in fact mimicking the way we actually see, as revealed to us (and perhaps subliminally to Hockney himself through his conversations with Trevor and Ryan Oakes about the camera-obscura method they in part generated from the insight) by the Oakes twins.<\/p>\n

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For more on the Oakes twins, see Lawrence Weschler\u2019s piece in the <\/em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/a> and his collection <\/em>Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Lawrence\u00a0Weschler<\/a>, late of\u00a0<\/em>The New Yorker\u00a0and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, is the author of more than twenty books on myriad subjects. He is currently completing work on a biographical memoir of the years, during the early eighties, when he was serving as a beanpole Sancho to Oliver Sacks\u2019s capacious Quixote, due out in 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted and adapted with permission from<\/em> David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]; introduction by Lawrence Weschler, Pace Gallery, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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