What President Obama calls a "distraction," British artist David Hockney considers his new canvas. Those unfamiliar with Hockney's work may know that he was an early, vocal supporter of the iPhone, simply for the reason that he could use the touchscreen interface to make drawings on the go. (Hockney is no stranger to computer-generated art, as he has been creating larger works with drawing programs over the past several years.) But now Hockney has fully embraced the iPad, and its potential for initiating a renaissance of hand-drawn art. Hockney told The Standard, "The iPad is far more subtle, in fact it really is like a drawing pad. They will sell by the million. It will change the way we look at everything from reading newspapers to the drawing pad... It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a universal machine."
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