David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases that permit wide-angle views of spaces such as the Grand Canyon or an LA living room. His Woldgate Woods series, made up of ten paintings of a landscape in Yorkshire, England, offers a half-year's story of seasonal change. Hockney plays up the woods' subtle contrasts, illuminating the indicators of time's passing with cartoon colors. There is a painterliness to the work; the artist's hand is visible in voluptuous brushstrokes that recall Monet's when he captured haystacks at different times of the year.