Research Paper On David Hockney

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A great example of a Photography and digital media artist is David Hockney. Hockney is an English photographer, painter and designer. He uses many materials and methods to create his unique works. In the 1970’s, Hockney started to create various collages which he called joiners. These works have appeared in many exhibitions and really stood out.
In around 1963, Hockney visited Los Angeles where he started creating works inspired by the swimming pools of L.A. He soon created his famous work called “A bigger splash”, which is a painting of a modern swimming pool and house. This work is a pop artwork. It features a hot day in California with the assumption that someone has just dived off a bright yellow diving board drawing your attention to the big splash. The house in the artwork is a simple but modern Californian building. …show more content…

He created the series of Joiners, which are various collages, made by combining various small Polaroid pictures to create one large image. The pictures he took, were often at different times and angles, creating a link with cubism, which was his aim. All of these works were abstract and different to still life images. An example of one of his Joiner’s works is “Chair”, which is an image of smaller images, pieced together to create an image of a chair. The chair is a quirky and awkward image as it isn’t a normal looking chair. In this image, Hockney has broken the law of perspective which makes the image stand out. Hockney again uses basic colours to create his image with a forest green rusty, old garden chair with a beige rustic background all pieced together on a grey/green background. I think that these colours help to convey a quirky and out of the ordinary image. They stand out against the background. Hockney used a few materials to create this image such as Polaroid prints which he glued together and then photographed. I think that they all worked well to create the quirky image of a

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