Sunday, August 28, 2011

David Hockney

















































I'm sure David Hockney has been discussed in many other blogs before, but I have only just discovered his work so I feel inspired to mention him tonight. (It is 10pm here in Aussie-land.)




David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He is based in Bridlington in Yorkshire and Kensington in London. (He must have more than one house, the lucky man!) He was born in 1937 and helped influence the Pop art movement in the 1960's.

Some of his paintings have an expressionist style while others use realism but all of them leave the viewer with something to think about. In his later works he also used cubism and a lot of his photos are photo-collages.


His use of colour is something I particularly admire about his work. I think most of his painting is a bit eccentric and not really my style but I do like the different experiments and passion he has used whilst creating his paintings and artwork.



Here are some examples...


Nichols Canyon 1980
Acrylic on canvas






A Bigger Splash 1967
Acrylic on canvas







Three Chairs with a Section of a Picasso Mural 1970
Acrylic on canvas






Some examples of his photo-collages...






The Desk 1984







Pearblossom Highway 1986






Place Furstenberg, Paris 1985


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