I love how the painting's location is very indistinguishable making it look very alien.

marc eriksen, tempe, sx, usa

Never been to LA, all I know is that the imediate impression is to see one step before or after the splash- makes one curious on who ,what and how he went in the water...

MIRON E., TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

It evokes the hot stillness of a summer day interrupted by the splash of the invisible swimmer. Powerful and refreshing!

DJ, Naples, Italy

The sky, the pool, and palms each bring back memories of life in Venice and Santa Monica. It just looks summer and hot .

Tim H, Denver, United States

The whole thing is so minimal with the awful Bauhaus architecture, the cloudless sky, those funny LA palms and the pool is so minimal that the surface is completely undisturbed despite a body diving into it. Only the splash hovers in the stillness. Minimal and surreal at the same time. I like it.

John, Sydney, Australia

it's all artificial except the angel that fell into the swimming pool

Christopher Heather, Wellington, New Zealand

I think this painting is about the creative process. The whole scene is so artificial, from the splash, to the palm trees, to the reflection in the windows, it is saying to us provocatively: I'm an artist I can make you believe something, which is not what it seems . It is a virtuoso performance!

Jack Trader, Lugano, Switzerland

Looks flat, boring and dull to me

Richard

Richard Tanyon, Richmond, USA

What is interesting about this painting is not what there is, but what there is not. The only break in the geometrical, the 'splash', has been left by someone we do not see and yet we know he is there. The stillness will be broken, life will return to the painting.

Chris Bauer, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hockney has deliberately 'missed the moment' focusing on the impact the diver has had on the otherwise still water, rather than the diver. Maybe this is indicative of Hockney wanting to illustrate diver's effect on their surroundings, rather than glorify the diver's ability and mankind by extension.

David Findlay, Worcester, UK

The work is all straight lines, hard, except the splash and the tiny bits of vegetation. The softer bits balance the harder ones. It's easier to see this in black & white, not being seduced by the pretty colors.

Mimi Forsyth, Waipahu,

It has its place. I think there's probably less of an impact with it today then there once was, since most, once innovative art movements get co-opted by advertising then become common place.

Brad Nesseth, Minneapolis, USA

Hockney is a genius. This is presented as orderly, predictable, and iconic. Even with the extreme harmony it is never monotonous. It is emotional surrealism with pictorial verisimilitude.

John Murphy, fremont, usa

It's ok. Art school material if everyone is honest, which in the art world is non-existant.

David Smith, Stourbridge, UK

I lived in California in the sixties and people would constantly ask me what I was into. Maybe the artist is stating that he is into water. Or maybe it's a twist on the saying regarding Californians that you have to dig deep to hit shallow. Maybe the artist is saying you have to dive deep to hit it.

Willie Griffith, Seattle, WA

I love it! It's like a desert and an oasis at the same time. What's not to like? It seems to say something about the cultural or emotional aridity of the people who inhabit the dwelling, whom you can't see, and the light is so brilliant!

Tracey, Sydney, Australia

There is no sign of humanity but we know that a man has constructed the geometric lines, even the chaos of the splash. The feeling conveyed is muted, as though the artist is on anti-depressants. The colours are those of Summer, strong and certain, but as in a dreamscape. Surreal.

Peta Jones, Montreal, Canada

The painting gives me a feeling of emptiness-all minimalist structures in muted colours. I believe there is a human being in the picture, somewhere under the water, but I can't be sure; the empty chair, the splash itself, has me asking 'who'; 'who' is about emotion, not logic and 'who' is missing.

David P Hall, Bangkok, Thailand

Hockney pushed a passive realism in his pop art years. The painting "A bigger splash" leaves the viewer with a sense of potiential energy that is un-tapped. - The goal for Hockney's paintings leaves a sense of defeat, in the shadow of sucess.

pie, redlands, ca.,