| dc.creator | Hockney, David | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-05-30T19:54:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-05-30T19:54:31Z | |
| dc.identifier | 022836 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/18329 | en_US |
| dc.description | The title of this painting is taken from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." Two lines from the poem are written out on the painting, "Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, / Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving." On the lips of the left figure is written, "never," taken from the line, 'One the other never leaving' as a commitment message. The '4.2' written in the lower left corner of the painting is a reference to musician Cliff Richard. Yet another reference for the painting is a local newspaper headline that read, 'TWO BOYS CLING TO CLIFF ALL NIGHT LONG.' Although the story involved a climbing accident, the sexual humor was not lost on Hockney. | en_US |
| dc.description | full view | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 122 x 153 cm (48.03 x 60.24 inches) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | oil paint | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | board (flat object) | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 116780 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Boys in art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hugging | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gays | en_US |
| dc.subject | Homosexuality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Love | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art, Modern --20th century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Painting, English --20th century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art, English --20th century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | en_US |
| dc.title | We Two Boys Together Clinging | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | All rights reserved | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Arts Council England (London, England) | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | British | en_US |
| vra.technique | painting (image-making) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Oil painting | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | painter: David Hockney (English, 1937-) | en_US |
