Alongside the filmmakers, activists, and big names in industry singled out by the weekly American publication as the most influential people of the year, David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado are the artists who made the cut. They feature along with singer Taylor Swift, Liverpool's Egyptian player Mohamed Salah, Italian chef Massimo Bottura, and the transgender model and muse for Louis Vuitton, Indya Moore.
Luchita Hurtado, a painter born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1920, is based in California. Having spent decades as somewhat unknown, the artist is now truly in the spotlight. Represented by Hauser & Wirth, who are currently hosting her solo show in New York, her painting will soon be coming to the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1970 — © Hammer Museum
More familiar to most is British painter David Hockney (b.1937), who became the most expensive living artist in the world last November; at Christie's in New York, "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" was sold for $90.3m.
It seems painting is back with a bite!
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