The secret knowledge of David Hockney and the multiple time windows in the drawings of Jandira Lorenz

Abstract

Thinking about the relationship “visual lecture: art, media and quotidian”, science and image and the process of producing images with aesthetic and representation problems, some artists draw our attention because they use their own art as a source of learning, in a scientific procedure, more explicitly. One of them is David Hockney, who with the book "The Secret Knowledge", explains how to try to rediscover the lost techniques of the great masters, showing his fascination for painting, for the magical universe emerged of the capacity and need the man has to represent reality and invent it. The other is the artist Jandira Lorenz, also a professor of art history, who with her production reveals survival, symptoms of her experience with studies in art. This paper aims to build a thought regarding the assembly of various historical periods in works of the artist Jandira Lorenz with the book by David Hockney, who contributed to the possibility of establishing a point of convergence on the characteristics of multiplicities and particularities in understanding the images seen by multiple windows in the recent research of the complete collection of drawings by Jandira Lorenz. By focusing on the connection between these two artists with art and science, we emphasize the value of artistic research.