An even Bigger Splash: why David Hockney's pop-art poem lives on

Tilda Swinton’s new erotic thriller shares the enigmatic title of Hockney’s Californian masterpiece, co-opting its eerie drama and languid intensity

A Bigger Splash review: entertainingly oddball psychodrama

Some painters – and some paintings – are the silent type. They fear language. Their art is a wordless enigma.

Caravaggio left almost no trace of his speech, let alone any writing. The court cases his violent life led to are the only record of the way he accounted for himself, verbally. His paintings are great frozen moments of wordless power.

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