WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING 1961 OIL ON CANVAS.
121.9 INCH x 152.4 INCH ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION, LONDON
This painting consists of an image of two figures embracing, they're kissing and seem to be connected by short lines. A loose 'graffiti' style is used and is predominantly red, blue and brown. This image was made in the sixties, when gay relationships were illegal in Britain. The painting suggests the mysterious dynamic that holds lovers together and also the graffiti style could refer to a dangerous and yet exciting world.

The most highly publicised British artist since the Second World War, he occupies a position analogous to that which was once accorded to Augustus John - one irony of this being that for John's exuberant heterosexuality Hockney substitutes a publicly acknowledged homosexuality. By the time he'd won a scholarship to Bradford Grammar School at the age of eleven he had already decided that he wanted to be an artist.
Later at the Royal College he realised that there were two groups of students: a traditional group, who carried on as they had done in art school, doing still life and figure compositions; and then what he thought of as the more adventurous, lively students, the brightest ones, who were involved in the art of their time.