david hockney
David Hockney is one of the most celebrated pop artists of our time. ... Born in Bradford, England in 1937, Hockney decided he wanted to be an artist when he was eleven. ... Hockney also has an interest in photography. He thinks that photographs exclude more than they reveal, and he came up with a solution: adding a photograph to a photograph to a photograph (Hockney 9). ... The viewer feels as if they are looking through a window, and they do not feel connected to what is being seen (Hockney 30). ... The observer knows that the artist had to do this also, and each view is slightly a different viewpoint (Hockney 31). ... They would be taken as data for paintings, or as a recording that might later become a painting (Hockney 10). ... He does this because he feels that all photography is autobiographical, since the artist must be present at the scene (Hockney 13). He also relates photography to drawing in the sense that the choices one makes are like drawing (Hockney 31). ... By linking pictures together, he felt he was drawing lines (Hockney 32). Hockney likes to experiment with photocollages, as seen in Pearblossom Hwy. ... David Hockney is one of the most influential pop artists of our time. ... Hockney is a man whose work reflects his life in a stylish way.