HOW WOULD YOU REPRESENT IDENTITY?David Hockney
DAVID HOCKNEY BIOGRAPHY
David Hockney was born in 1937 and still alive. He is English although also lives in California with his partner.
He is a painter, printer, set designer and photographer. In the 1960s he was an important contributor to pop art.
Hockney Painted portraits in different points in his career. In the early 1970s, he painted friends, lovers and relatives just under life-size that showed a good likeness of the person.
In the 1980s he began to make photo collages called joiners.
DAVID HOCKNEY EXHIBITION
The National Portrait Gallery in London held one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraits.
There were 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and photo collages.
The collection included nearly 50 years of work from early self portraits to work finished in 2005.
It was one of the gallery's most successful exhibitions.
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In this portrait of my mother, he has used 30 separate images taken at different angles and perspectives. He hoped to show the way that human vision works but he got frustrated with photography and returned to painting in 1996
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This is the first of his portraits of his mother created in 1985. He made portraits of his parents over the years. This is a lithograph on paper
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This is a lithograph influenced by Picasso Hockney put the lower ad upper parts it separate frames of different sizes creating a confusing illusion. Gregory was Hockney’s assistant and sat for him many times
MY VIEWS I like David Hockney’s
style of art because he does paintings and drawings and he has used a variety of different techniques throughout his life.
Hr painted using acrylics, oils, and watercolour; drew with pencil, crayon and ink.; developed printing techniques and experimented with photography.