These were made of a 7 x 16 grid of photographs. He first experimented with this in Los Angeles at the end of February 1982. Hockney developed a technique using Polaroid ‘joiners’. He stated that, ‘Cubism was a total vision’. Using the ideals of cubism to influence his photography he created photographs that encompassed these artistic elements, which had not been explored before. The first two of these are central cubist themes. Hockney aimed to produce pictures that had three artistic elements which a single photograph cannot have, namely layered time, space and narrative. Following the roots of cubism, you can see that within Hockney’s images, surfaces dissect at different angles. As his compositions became more complex he continued to use 35mm or a compact 110 camera. Hockney was a prolific photographer his first camera was a 35mm Pentax. Hockney felt that Picasso ‘drew beautifully’ and taught him a lot about abstraction. Hockney first saw the work of Picasso in the 1950’s, a time when Picasso was criticised by many in the art world. It is his role as a photographer that I wish to explore, particularly how the cubist movement influenced him and how he further developed it as an art form through the medium of photography. He is one of the most important figures in modern art. newspaper, cloth, sheets of music.ĭavid Hockney (1937) is world renowned as an English painter, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. It consists of using different materials to produce an image e.g. It is also more decorative, appealing and easier to interpret. It is developed through a construction process rather than an analytical process. Synthetic cubism was developed after 1912 and is seen as the birth of collage. These fragments would then be assembled on the canvas to create a more complete and intellectually satisfying picture than that offered by conventional perspective. Analytical is pre 1912, it is called this because of its structured dissection of the subject as seen from multiple viewpoints. The scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from’ (Picasso)Ĭubism is divided into two forms, analytical and synthetic. ‘You can take in your hand it is more like a perfume – in front of you, behind you, to the sides. Life in the new century was very different technology was evolving at speed and for the first time ever photography threatened to take over from art. ![]() They shared a vision that would break the rules of painting and create a new style of art. ![]() I will explore pertinent works of both Hockney and Kellner and discuss the similarities and differences in their interpretations of this most influential art movement.Ĭubism was born in 1907 when the two artists Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) met in Paris. ![]() Within this essay, I aim to define Cubist art and show how the Cubist movement has influenced modern day photographers.
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