Bio:
Born: 9th of July 1937, (age 83 years), Bradford
On View: The Museum of Modern Art, Tate modern, Royal academy of art
Movement: Pop-art, Cubism, Modern art
Influenced by: Henri Matisse, Tom of Finland Julian Trevelyan, Antonio Lopez, Vincent Van Gogh
Education: Bradford College (1953-1957), Chelsea College of Arts, Royal College of Arts, Bradford Grammar School
Background history:
David Hockney is an English photographer, printmaker, stage designer, draftsman and a painter. He was heavily moved and interested in pop art paintings and photography. He attended art school in London before to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called it joiners. He continues to draw mostly and display it in best different exhibits he can find such as the Royal Academy of art and Tate modern.
In 2011 he was the most influential artist of the 20th century. He mostly used traditional tools for his landscape paintings for the display such as paint brushes and coloured pallets and painting colours. But also sometimes for the landscape paintings he uses non traditional tools for fun such as his ipad to draw on it.
In the mid 80s he took photographs to dramatize the sense of space in a landscape. "Pear blossom highway" is a example of that with a series of collage of prints designed to mimic the subjective, immersive and cubist experience of space. He also created portraits of collages as well to experiment further and find what his limitations are on what to create with collages. The way he uses to print his collages are to take each angle of the shot carefully, align each picture to create like a puzzle piece and then glue it either on the canvas or A3 paper. I had created a similar version of his unique style before but instead of doing portraits we did landscapes, it was quite hard, frustrating but overall fun and exciting.
My opinion
In my opinion, I prefer the vivid landscapes than the abstract weird looking portraits. Though the portrait does have the same dramatic way as like as the landscape, I just don't like the way it portrays. The feeling of the portrait to me makes me feel quite uncomfortable as it is a distorted image. I understand that it isn't meant to be realistic as possible as David creates it as a unique way which is quite influencing and interesting. Nevertheless I quite prefer the vivid colors for my portrait. Something like Julian Opie.
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