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Given how popular David Hockney is around here (that post accounts for most of hundreds of recent page loads), I figured that people would be pleased if I added another.

Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool, by David Hockney

Again, there are three bits of space, vertically stacked; a simple composition built from a series of Polaroid photographs of Hockney's friend Peter Schlesinger.

The top draws the eye horizontally, but it's still a background, strangely flat. It calls to mind Japanese screens. The figure in the middle is the only three-dimensional part. And then there's the flat visual space of the swimming pool.

Abstract, decorative swirls stand in for the movement of water.

I like it.

And not just 'cause it's a picture of a boy's butt.

But that'll do.