446. A Lawn Being Sprinkled - David Hockney - 1967 - LA Louver

I also like the cover of Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns. It's tactile and weird. A Lawn Being Sprinkled, not much older than Mitchell's album, is even glossier and moderner. Its sprinkler forms reflect the stately shape guise of Mitchell's characters' lives. The form, water and California glow is gorgeous. But if those sprinklers were turned off, that grass would die. The house would lose charm. Hockney's art so often suggests the emotional decay Mitchell's lyrics elucidate.