Although A Larger Splash seems, on its floor, to be a meticulously noticed second in time, it was, in truth, a fusion of private and borrowed expertise. The portray owes its most speedy origin to the artist’s probability discovery of a technical guide about swimming pool building. {A photograph} of a splash made by an unseen diver and diving board in Swimming Swimming pools, revealed by Sundown Books in 1959, stripped of a pair of poolside onlookers, was quickly fused on Hockney’s canvas with a stylised model of the constructing behind them, just like ones he had lately been committing to his drawing pad.
