Born july 9, 1937 David Hockney attended art school in London in the 1960’s, then he moved to Los Angeles, he started making his famous swimming pool paintings there in the 1970’s. After that he started work in photography. David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford England and loved reading books and was interested in art at an early age and admired picasso. His parents encouraged him as a child to draw, doodle and daydream. He attended Bradford College in 1953 to 1957, then in 1959 he entered graduate school at the Royal College of Art in London alongside other great artists such as Peter Black and Allen Jones.
Style
Well David Hockney is both a great artist and a photographer. With painting he wanted to[1]“push the limits of painting” and see how far he can go, and try to paint different angles and perspectives of a face kind of like what Pacaso did. But his photography style was experimenting with the same thing of taking pictures of different angles of the same subject but not a huge different angle so that you could tell that it was that object but didn’t blend perfectly. Overall the main style he kind of did and messed around with was collage and different viewpoints, I guess also cubism he went a step ahead of cubism. He says that his personal style was a step ahead of cubism.
Philosophy
He understood that he was doing it all differently, “then I realized that I was attempting two-eyed photography and while I was taking the photographs I was spending a great deal of time looking, but not through the camera.[2]” He was doing his own perspective of art and photography and that there isn’t a line that ends the picture in other words the frame, he understood that it can and will go outside the frame.[3] “The last ones are the most complex and the most satisfying I think. These get closer to experience, I'm moving about more and more.”. This is him explaining that he tries to get the viewers' experience closer and closer to what is going on. [4]“This is not like a window even though it looks literal enough, because your eye is moving in and out all the time, as it does naturally. I may be perfectly still but my eye is moving around the room and wherever it moves everything is in focus.”.
Influences
His first and biggest impact of his influence was Picasso and his kind of style, the way Picasso did his art immediately inspired David. [5]“The problems of depiction in a way nobody else has”. He was fixed on not having a fixed point which is what Pocasso tried and did do. David wanted to do the same thing but so much more, he wanted every single part of the collage to be the fixed image. It was like breaking the rules, that's why he was interested in cubism because that's what it kinda was. Another influence was Chinese Scroll Painting, [6]”The trouble with perspective is that it has no movement at all” and he's referring to these scroll paintings, Hockney feels like they don't have perspective. These scroll paintings capture the movement of what's happening in the painting over time and that's what was one of his influences.
Compare and Contrast
This one actually my grandpa wanted me to do just so he can be in my project. Im not good enough at editing to figure out how to merge the other pictures and then copy all o that, but anyways this one was just fun to do and none of these edits are the same and I didn't really want to make them exactly the same because thats the something that David Hockney did. He did it differently.
This was a fun one to edit because it was the first one I did and was messing around with the most. And I love being able to take pictures of subjects the I have done with or connected in some way.
Artist Statement
For the guitar edits I didn't edit it the same way because I wanted to mix it up a little. When trying to find David Hockney pictures, I was mostly trying to find things I could actually do. But then I saw this picture and immediately I called my grandpa and grandma who live on the other side of Ann Arbor, I asked if I could come over and take a picture of my grandpa's acoustic guitar, he said yes. I wanted to take a picture of a guitar so badly because most of my personal life connects with music, I play bass guitar and I have been for 3 years now, my mom made me grow up and 80-90's rock and that's just like 80% of what kind of music I listen to today. For the other photos they were mostly pictures that were fun and easy to take pictures of, my grandpa was really excited about this project all together because I haven't done anything like this before and he's a really artistic person and has a lot of fun with these things.