We've been looking at cubism- a group of artsit's response to photography.
Now go to http://www.hockneypictures.com/illust_chronology/illust_chrono_01.php
make yourself familiar with the artist, his transition through differnt styles and media and comment on Hockney's photographic response to cubism.
9 comments:
This artist is amazing!! However, I prefer his paintings to the photo collages, probably because I prefer painting in general. However, his idea and technique of putting together the collages is great and very effective. My favourite collage is "Pearblossom Highway", which is the first collage shown. Somehow the street is really clear, but on the other hand also quite distorted. Basically, he is also influenced by Cubism, however, he uses photos instead of paint or texture as we are.
I think that all of his collages are very effective, because they distorted, and sometimes the zoom is different, but one can still clearly see the object that is shown. I also like the fact that not all of his collages are rectangular. The unevenness adds to the effectiveness of the artwork. It is something unusual to see artworks that are not entirely rectangular. I like the fact that he mostly uses bright colours because in my opinion this makes the artworks more interesting. One example is the “Pearblossom Highway” again. There the bright blue sky stands out before the grey street and desert. The street sign gives another contrast. So by having these contrasts, the viewers have different focuses. Many of his paintings also have bright colours and a lot of contrast. These colours make the paintings and collages seem happy and warm.
David Hockney is a gifted Artist and Photographer. However I really liked his Photo style; the way he made his collages were very creative and cleaver. From his collages I mostly liked "Prehistoric Museum near Palm Springs" for different reasons, such as the black/white style made it more unique, it looked more classic then the others. The way the shadow showed with all the joined up pictures had a great effect which I really liked. I really liked the way that the artist had some zoomed in photos and some zoom out photos which gave it some pleasant look.
David Hockney is an interesting artist. Just by looking at his paintings, becuase images are more interesting than writings, I realize that he develops his paintings and pieces of artworks along the way and years. This is because looking at the starting pictures, they are so minor and not effective, and looking at the late years of his work, he gives an effect and more into thought to what he is painting and he shows that by painting accurately and neatly.
Getting to know the artist, Hockney gradually gets his way on learning more about ART by his education information and by the additional information he informs us, such as looking at different galleries and meeting different people to influence his work.
Some great, personal resonses I llok forward to seeing some evidence of your response in your workbooks too.
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the photo collages are extremely amazing. the idea of putting the collages is very creative. I think that all his collages are beautiful because the focus of the object are shown in a different angel in each picture and thats what caught my attention the most. i also like the shape of the picture, because it looks very unusual and in the same way creative.This gave it an amazing and attractive effect.
Dana-EG-I am amazed at David Hockney's work. For the past couple of weeks, we have been looking at Cubism and the different types. However, I have never seen anything like what Hockney has produced.
My favorite piece of work for him that really appealed to me is "Paint Trolley" The first glimpse when I looked at it, I saw a clear image, however when I focussed I could see how the image was distorted little by little. For him to be able to produce an image like that; I think is amazing!
His work would most probably inspire me to attempt creating a photographic collage as it looks extremely effective with all the images put together to produce one final image.
Dana AM-
I really like David Hockney's work because it's his personal response to cubism. Usually, in cubism you can't clearly see what the object in the painting is, most of the time you have to take a closer look. However, with David Hockney's work you can immediately see what the object is. The artwork that i like the most is "Painting As Performance" because it incorporates two eelements of art that i really enjoy doing. The work is a mixture of digital art, photography and an actual painting. The lighting is very unique, and even though it has a dark "look" to it, the bright colors still show through and make the piece more interesting.
My initial response was that i didnt like the photographs on the illustrated chronology. They have duller colours and look half-hearted. It seems that they were not showing his strengths. They also dont seem to represent him as an artist, to me his bright colours represent him almost like a trademark and those initial pieces are lacking that tinted light that infiltrates most of his artworks.
I like how even though he is famous for a specific style of photography he also experimented with more traditional forms of art (like drawing or painting). It shows that before jumping in there with your own ideas you have to understand all types of art and learn skills from different styles first. Similar to what we are required to do in art class too.
Exposed to preexisting art works and created his own interpretation. It made him a better artist in the long run.
I looked at Pearblossom Highway, 11th-18th April 1986, photographic collage, 77x112 1/2 in.
I LOVED it. Even though its a photographic collage it looks so stylistic because the colours and shapes are emphasized. Its interesting that the sky, though all blue, still looks pieced togeher because each individual picture has a natural white edge from the light.
I also looked at The Road to York through Sledmere, 1997 oil on canvas, 48x60 in and it was so interesting because i have been on this road this summer. I love the colours he used and he made it look so much more interesting by stylizing it.
He doesnt just stick to what he's good at, he tries out everything. It emphasizes his creativity, to be able to improve in all these numerable areas of art.
Sara AM-Looking at David Hockney's work, I found that the photographic collage called "Paint Trolley" was very striking because it feels like there's depth in the image as well as dimension. Even though I'm very pleased with my work so far i.e. experimenting with cubism and watercolors after looking at Picasso's work, I feel that my work is lacking volume if that's the right word .. I guess. The image uses a range of color and demonstrates a kind of illusion forcing your mind to put it together. Some parts of the image pull you in where others push you back to allow you to see the complete image. As well as dimension, his photo's have movement something a 2D cubistic painting would not be able to represent. I can picture the trolley moving down the corridor due to the several overlapping fragments of the image. Whenever I think of a picture, image or painting my mind directly links it to a complete shape. For instance if I was reproducing an image using Hockney's techniques, I would try to make an image that extends to the side to create a perfect rectangle however, Hockney's messy edges allows the viewer visual comfort because they are not restricted.
Everyone today was talking about how amazing David Hockney's work is, and after finally being able to access the blog and look at David Hockney's work, I was able to see just how amazing how he is. Honestly, I don't want to talk about his artworks because in each of the previous blog posts, someone mentioned something about his work, and with me saying again that his artworks are "amazing" would just be another clichéd response. Instead, I would like to talk about the artist himself and what he has achieved. I believe that David Hockney is the perfect artist to look at as IB students. He portrays the perfect example of what we, as IB art students, should be able to do. First of all, he experimented with different types of art movements that were each different to one another, and used different media to produce these art works. He also continued experimenting with these movements for 50 years(we can see that under each category on his website, there is an example from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, 90s and 00s). What is also an important characteristic in David Hockney that Sara AM pointed out today is that he is very original with his ideas and produced what he sees best. He did not let other people's views affect what he creates, and that I think, is something crucial to have as an IB art student. I think you should be able to create your own work based on your ideas and what you find best. Even if you do not get the results you were hoping to get, you should be able to know and base some of your projects based on your own thoughts and ideas. For example, in the cubism project we’re doing at the moment, each and every one of us decided to go off in their own direction, no matter how different it was to the original still life in front of us, and we all did what we thought looked the best in our eyes. Therefore, I think David Hockney is one of the best examples of artists that we could look at in IB Art because he not only experiments with a variety of movements, and portrays his abilities and skills to create beautiful pieces of artworks, but he bases all of his artworks on his own thoughts and ideas, and just does what he finds suitable.
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