I met this beautiful painting in the Met during a Hockney retrospective and it floored me. It's massive (6.5ft by 10ft) and the colours are so saturated. It was painted of a route Hockney used to drive whilst listening to Wagner symphonies and plan routes that revealed beautiful views at key points in the musical composition. I think you can really hear the music and the awe in the painting
"He bought a beach house at the bottom of Las Flores Canyon, and in the early nineties he began plotting mountain routes that could be timed with Wagner selections. These expeditions informed his ideas about the play of light on landscape, both on canvas and in the theatre. When he experienced hearing loss, he had his Mercedes outfitted with a potent stereo system. Friends and fellow-artists were invited along for the ride."