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David Hockney was born in Bradford, England, on July 9, 1937.

Painting

My Parents - 1977

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Chromogenic Print

Self Portrait, Karlsbad 1970

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PhotoCollages aka “Joiners”

Telephone Pole - 1982

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Hockney was interested in art from an early age; favoring Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard.

Joiner

Place Furstenberg, Paris - 1985

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Hockney attended the Bradford College of Art and late enrolled in graduate courses at the Royal College of Art in London.

Joiner

Mother

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There he experimented with different forms of art tending toward iabstract expressionism.

Joiner

Landscape

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Hockney’s early paintings incorporated his literary leanings. He used fragments of poems and quotations in his work.

Joiner

City Landscape

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He visited Los Angeles in 1963 & officially moved there in 1966.

Joiner

Self Portrait

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He was fascinated by the swimming pools of L.A. and he became known for large, iconic works such as A Bigger Splash.

Painting

A Bigger Splash

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His expressionistic style evolved, and by the 1970s, he was considered more of a realist.

David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

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In addition to pools, Hockney painted the interiors and exteriors of California homes.

Painting

Studio Interior #2 - 2014

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In 1970, his created first “joiner,” an assemblage of Polaroid photos laid out in a grid. Although this medium would become one his claims to fame, he stumbled upon it by accident.

Joiner

The Artist’s Desk

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While working on a painting of a Los Angeles living room, he took a series of photos for his own reference.

Grids

Sun on the Pool Los Angeles - 1982

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Composite Polaroids

Oops! This is Sun on the Pool Los Angeles, 1982, by David Hockney

Above is The Diver

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Hockney then put the photographs together so he could paint from the image.

Composite Polaroid

“Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso. Los Angeles 24th March 1982.”

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. Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room.

Composite Polaroid

A portrait of Hockney’s early art dealer friend John Kasmin

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He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery.

Composite Polaroids

Billy + Audrey Wilder, Los Angeles April 1982

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Hockney even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photographic collage.

Painting

Garden with a Blue Terrace

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From 1982 Hockney explored the use of the camera, making composite images of Polaroid photographs arranged in a rectangular grid.

Painting

The Group V - 2014

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Later he used regular 35-millimetre prints to create photo collages, compiling a ‘complete’ picture from a series of individually photographed details.

Robert Littman Floating in My Pool - 1982

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Cubism helped to topple the single perspective in the hand-arts, but with photography it still exists.

Joiner

The Crossword Puzzle - 1983

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The idea behind Hockney’s grids was to inject multiple reference points into photography, in short to make it cubist.

Paul Kasmin and Jasper Conran - 1982

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In a 2011 poll Hockney was voted the most influential British artist of all time. He continues to paint & exhibit & advocates for funding for the arts.

Photographic Drawings

Two Chairs and People - 2014

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Photographic Drawing

The Card Players - 2015

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Joiner

Pearblossom Highway - 1986

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iPad paintings

David Hockney Painting “Winter Timber” in Bridlington, July 2009

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Painting

Nicholas Canyon - 1980

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Under and Out of the Arch - 1989

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Garrowby Hill - 1998

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iPad Art

The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011

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Small Santa Monica and The Bay From the Mountains

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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Painting by David Hockney

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The Road to York through Sledmere

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H/T @freedomAU21C Thank you for introducing me to David Hockney’s work.

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Additional reading about David Hockney

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