Contemporary Art
A Bigger Splash By David Hockney
A Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting measuring 242.5 cm × 243.9 cm (95.5 in × 96.0 in). It depicts a sun-drenched swimming pool in Los Angeles. Apart from the swimming pool, the painting contains a pink modernist building, an empty chair and spindly palm trees. Moreover the reflection of the neighboring building may be seen on the glass of the window of the pink building. However, what makes the work interesting is that it is devoid of human presence. The splash is shown but the viewer is left wondering who dived in. A Bigger Splash was created with meticulous care by Hockney, simplifying but enlarging his earlier paintings titled “A Little Splash” (1966) and “The Splash” (1966). Hockey later said about the painting that he “realized that a splash could never be seen this way in real life, it happens too quickly. And I was amused by this, so I painted it in a very, very slow way.”
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