What happens to an icon when he or she grows old? It’s a valid question in a city where age has long been treated as anathema, writes davidulin.
Joni Mitchell and David Hockney at L.A. Louver, where Hockney’s solo exhibition “Something New in Painting [and even Printing]” is currently on view.
Hockney is 81, and Mitchell is 75. They are legends, yes, but legends who — miraculously, transcendently — look their age.What happens to an icon when he or she grows old? It’s a valid question in a city where age has long been treated as anathema.Hockney was born in Bradford, England, and fell in love with California watching Laurel and Hardy on the screen.
In his 1947 essay “Hollywood,” Truman Capote offered a trenchant observation of the mid-20th century Los Angeles’ discomfort with the subject. “A teacher here,” he wrote, “recently gave a vocabulary test in which she asked her students to provide the antonym of ‘youth.’ Over half the class answered ‘death.’”
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