![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea was to give a feeling of cubism in his work through photography. Some examples of amalgamated Polaroids from 1982 are Don & Christopher Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso Still Life Blue Guitar Sun On The Pool and Patrick Procktor, London. He became so engrossed that for a while he kept his talent of painting aside. This was a discovery on his part, and he began experimenting. It was not in his mind to give this activity a planned composition, it just happened to be that everything harmonized in an unusual way, suggesting a sense of movement in the subject and the outcome narrated that the spectator moved around in the room. Once he was to paint a terrace and living room in Los Angeles, so he happened to make Polaroid images of the living area and later glued the photos together. The idea of joiners came to Hockney accidentally. While photographing, the subjects could move obviously if they were living things, otherwise Hockney moved the camera to photograph the scene or subject from various perspectives, parts and/or angles. These photomontages were done using a grid and even without it, to give a imprecise look. With this technique, he has made landscapes and portraits, such as Pearl Blossom Highway and Kasmin, respectively. The first subject of such work was his mother and since the photos were taken overtime – when joined together they gave a cubist feel. Hockney cleverly composed a patchwork of images. He used Polaroid photos and soon 35mm prints in color. In the 1980s, he began making photograph collages and he use to call them, joiners. Hockney made trips to Paris, Los Angeles and London.Īpart from painting, David Hockney was famous for his unique style of photography. A trip to California inspired Hockney to paint a series of swimming pools in acrylic, using vivid colors. There, he was included in Young Contemporaries, an exhibition that marked the arrival of Pop art in Britain. He completed his secondary education from Bradford College of Art and he finally attended the Royal College of Art, London. He went to Wellington Primary School, then to Bradford Grammar School. He was the son of Kenneth Hockney and Laura Beth. Born in 1937 in Bradford, England David Hockney is an English photographer, printmaker, painter, stage designer and draughtsman. ![]()
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