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Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1937, he began printmaking because he had no money, and sold his first prints to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, while still a student. The following year the Royal College of Art in London withheld his diploma for failing to satisfy the requirements of the General Studies Department. He retaliated by producing his own parody of this requisite. In it he frames the College Rector, Robin Darwin, with two faces, upheld by the tutor of the General Studies Department, who in turn is being pursued by the monstrous maw of the Registrar, John Moon. Bent under the weight of these bureaucrats are the students, seen below the frame at the bottom of the picture. Hockney did subsequently receive his diploma, as well as the gold medal for painting that year.","physicalDescription":"Etching and aquatint in red and black on white paper. The outline of a frame around the Royal Coat of Arms at the top of the image, below this a caricature figure, marching, head thrown back and with upstretched arm supporting another, smaller figure in black with two heads inscribed respectively Ist Face and 2nd Face. 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It shows Sir Robin Darwin, C.B.E., the Principal, accompanied by Mr. J. R. P. Moon, the Registrar, elevating the artist; below the border are the figures of Mr. Michael Kullmann, head of the Department of General Studies, and four students.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'The Diploma'.  Print by David Hockney showing the Principal and Registrar of the Royal Academy.  Etching and aquatint, 1962.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 </u>.  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