Research Paper On David Hockney

David Hockney was considered the most influential British artist of 20th century. He is a painter, print maker, stage designer and photographer; however, he also contributed to the Pop art movement of 1960’s. Moreover, in 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages which he called joiners, by using Polaroid prints of single subject and arranging patchwork to make a composite image. According to Hockney, traditional photography lacks time and space; frozen moment of photography is unreal. Therefore, he experimented with different perspectives and angles of a single focus through lines and forms. He builds up a picture by taking many individual photographs to depict the details of the scene by concentrating on some areas and ignoring others. His photography gives more real impression of what is happening by crude layering; all in one plane depicting bigger illusion of space.

Random angles intersection at various angles adding to the incoherent depth of the image and to create the shallow ambiguous space. Hockney is best known for the pictorial production that represents the main field of his artistic activity covering the full spectrum. The shifting in color in the reproduction emphasizes on the relationship between image and reality, space and perspective. Joiners have different subject from portraits to still life and from representational to abstract styles. Hockney reflected extensively on this process as connecting to the Cubist sense of multiple angles and especially of movement. These “multiples” convey a strong sense of movement. According to Cubism’s principles, Hockney’s work introduce three artistic elements which a single photograph cannot have, namely layered time, space and narrative. Hockney points out that a single photo expresses a single instant, and so cannot represent time or