This is a really interesting article, definitely worth a read. I saw Hockney's portraits exhibition a few years ago. I'm not much into art but really liked his work.

A seasoned artist's openness to a new medium like tablets is really refreshing, compared to the usual nostalgia around canvas and "real" paint.

“Picasso would have gone mad with this,” he says. “So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.”

And an interesting contrast with writers, for whom, perhaps, technology is just a tool, not a medium.