Fragments
- David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East riding of Yorkshire, and kensington, London. Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
- An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ Perhaps this is the wrong argument as they are different media and needn’t be compared. Hockney’s creation of the “joiners” occurred accidentally.
- He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles. He took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own.
- Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photography. From 1982 Hockney explored the use of the camera, making composite images of Polaroid photographs arranged in a rectangular grid.
- Later he used regular 35-millimetre prints to create photo collages, compiling a ‘complete’ picture from a series of individually photographed details. The main obstacle Hockney thinks he has overcome is the limited perspective of a stationary camera. A single photograph can only show one point of view, usually for a small period of time. “All photographs share the same flaw,” he says. “Lack of time.”
- Digital circlism
For my exam I chose fragments, so I decided to use four portraits of me and three of my friends I mosaiced the images.
Then I put the portraits mixed up on to a A4 page I used this as the 2nd layer. On the first layer (the background) I chose the colour.
After that I placed one of the portrait over the top of the 2nd layer, then inverted it then deleted it that removed the 2nd layer portraits and left the big one imprinted over the top in the background colour.
Then I used different colours but white worked the best these last two images I used and my final piece. This two are my best two the white make it more strong and rich I really like my friends curly hair in the last picture it creates a great effect