Monday, February 3, 2014

David Hockney Journal

1) Who is David Hockney?
  • David Hockney was born on July 9th 1937 and is from Bradford, England. Along with being a photographer he is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, amd stage designer. He studied at the  Royal College of Art in London.
  • Hockneys are is very bright and colorful, he mostly does portraits, while his photgraphy, which he calls "joiners", are several pictures put together to make a collage of a bigger picture. His paintings have expressionist elements.
  • Fun Facts: David Hockney is openly gay and he was born with synesthesia (he sees synesthetic colours in response to musical stimuli)
Hockneys Photomontages:


 
 
 
 
2)
By: Alex Santoso
 
 
 
By:  Hannah Hohenstein-Flack
 
 
Hockney inspired front on portrait with profile portraits facing in or out - image inspiration: Sonalika Jain 'Joiner"
By: Anne Larkin
 
 
3) Ideas for my shoot:
Furniture
Rooms
TV Screen
Face (Portraits) (Surreal?)
Park
Woods (Nature)
Food

 

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