David Hockney

 

David Hockney was born on the 9th July 1937 in Bradford. David Hockney is gay doesn't have a problem with people knowing. His sexuality may of had some effect on his work, just like Andy Warhol. He is mostly known as an artist because of contribution to the Pop Art movement. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London. 

David started making his photo collages in the early 1980s. He labelled his work as "joiners". He made these collages by taking the photos with a Polaroid camera. Using Polaroid photographs of a object from different perspectives he was able to generate them together into a distorted image of the original. One of his first joiners was of his mother. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is of his work became a photographic version of Cubism.

We as a class looked at his work to gain more inspiration for our portrait project. We were able to mimic his work virtually using the same method as he did. The only difference in are method was the change from a instant image Polaroid to a digital camera. I found his work to be a real easy way to produce a cubist piece.