The Photo Collage Artwork

of Pop Artist

David Hockney

Biography

David Hockney, born in 1937, is an English collage artist, painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer.

“A Bigger Splash”A Bigger Splash was painted in California in the early summer of 1967 and is the most well –known painting of Hockney’s early career. It is an illustration of a typical warm, sunny, cloudless California day. The splash is created by a person who has just dived into the pool. A Bigger Splash

1967

Photo CollageBesides painting, Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photo collage.Photo collage is the process of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs together you can see an example in “The Chair.”

The Chair

1985

“Kasmin”Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photographs of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.

For example, “Kasmin” is portrait of an art dealer Paul Kasmin.

Kasmin

1982

A Happy AccidentHockney's creation of photo collage occurred accidentally. He was working on a painting of a living room 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. He stopped painting for a period of time to pursue this new style of photography.

“The Living Room”

“Pearblossom Highway”Some of Hockney’s collages are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway. The picture is about driving. On the right-hand side of the road it's as if you're the driver, reading traffic signs to tell you what to do and so on, and on the left-hand side it's as if you're a passenger going along the road more slowly, looking all around-- even at the littered cans and bottles . When you drive you read all the road signs, but when you're the passenger, you don't, you can decide to look where you want.

“Pearblossom Highway”1986

Take a look at more of Hockey’s photo collage artworks.

Place Furstenberg

1982

Telephone Pole

1982

Still Life Blue Guitar

1982

Celia's Children Albert & George Clark

1982

My Mother

1985

Self Portrait

1992

Conclusion

An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

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