time in Yorkshire painting the landscape he grew up in. He wrote books challeng- ing’ perceptions of arthistory:inhis2001 book Secret Knowledge he argues that advances in realism could only have been ‘made with the clandestineuse of mirrors cameraobscurasandotheropticaltricks'® NOWONTHEIPAD In the last decade Hockney has em- braced” new technology, exploring film 2nd digital photography and painting hundreds of portraits®®,stllfesandland- scapes on his iPad, on which he also de- signed a 20-feet-high’® stained-glass? window for Westminster Abbey. A new show in the National Portrait Gallery in London pays homage** to Hockney'slife- ong love of drawing. It features self-por- traits he did as a teenager in Bradford as wellas new work. @ Clockwise from left: Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Poo! with Two Figures) at the Tate Britain in 2017; a drawing of the fashion designer Celia Birtwell: A Bigger Splash at the Tate Modern in 2013; Hockney in 1967, MGLOSSARY 415 to challenge: sfidare 14 toargue: sostenere 45. mirrors: specchi 16 tricks: trucchi 17 toembrace: abbracciare, usare 18 portraits: ritratti 49 20-feet-high: alto circa 6 metri (20 pied) 20 stained-glass: di vetro colorato 21 to pay homage: rendere omaggio 22 relatives: parent 25 lifelong: di tutta una vita auction: asta David Hockney painted many portraits of friends and relatives? ina realistic yet unique style. One of hislifelong?* interests was 92y love, and he produced paintings on the theme well before pomosexuality wasdecriminalisedin Englandin1967.A1972 wore Portrait ofan Artist (Poo! with Two Figures) of his lover and muse Peter Schlesinger soldin 2018 for $90 milion, the mostexpensive work bya living artist sold at auction?4 at the time.