Hockney artworks adorn Van Gogh Museum

AMSTERDAM - A new exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum highlights the influences of the tormented Dutch master on the later landscape works of one of the world's greatest living artists, David Hockney.

The exhibition Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature opens on Friday and runs through May 26. It features both artists' landscapes, juxtaposing paintings and drawings by the 19th century Dutchman with Hockney works ranging from small charcoal sketches and water colors to giant, wall-filling paintings, videos and iPad drawings.

"I've always found the world quite beautiful, looking at it, Just looking," Hockney says in the exhibition's catalog. "And that's an important thing I share with Vincent van Gogh: We both really, really enjoy looking at the world."