David Hockney Collage

In our collage, we tried to communicate the setting and feeling of the auditorium. In our collage, the auditorium looks very big in comparison to the person in the center. Although it is a little disordered, which works since thats how Davids Hockneys looked, it capture the essence of the performing arts center. Somethings I learned during this project was in order to have the collage look neat and tidy, every corner of every picture needed to be completely glued down so the surface was smooth. Another was that you have to uses a lot of different picture from different angles so you have enough to choose from when situated pictures and putting them together.

Hobbies, Sydney

Taking this picture, I can remember hearing kids a parents cheering as a soccer game went on in the field next to us. I could feel the sand under my feet and on my knees. I remember thinking how interesting the socks looked next to volleyball. The net in the background shows that I'm at a sand volleyball court.

In our collage, we tried to communicate the setting and feeling of the auditorium. In our collage, the auditorium looks very big in comparison to the person in the center. Although it is a little disordered, which works since thats how Davids Hockneys looked, it capture the essence of the performing arts center. Somethings I learned during this project was in order to have the collage look neat and tidy, every corner of every picture needed to be completely glued down so the surface was smooth. Another was that you have to uses a lot of different picture from different angles so you have enough to choose from when situated pictures and putting them together.

Creative Portraits

 In this photograph I chose to use the composition "alter perspective". I like this picture because you can see the full length of the body even though she is in a tree. I had the lens right be her foot to capture the entire subject. Also, the way she looks down makes the photo more interesting.

In this photograph I used "obscure part of subject". There are a couple of things that I think make this photograph interesting. One is that half of her body/face is blocked by the tree. Another is the color and lighting in the background.

David Hockney

When did the Cubist Period occur? Who is credited with this style? What are aspects featured of the Cubist Artwork?

The Cubist Period occurred in the 20th century between the years of 1914 to 1917. It was started by Pablo Picasso and George Barque in Paris. Cubist artwork emphasized flat 2D surfaces with no perspective or other traditional techniques such as chiaroscuro or modeling. Figures often showed fragmented bodies with multiple sides being shown at once.

Who is David Hockney? What kind of work does/has he done? What Cubist features do you notice in David Hockney's work? Where and how might he have been influenced by the cubist period?

David Hockney is an artist who was born in 1937. He became famous when he was in his mid-twenties and was known as the greatest artist of his generation. His early paintings had a lighter, joking mood to them and was considered pop art, but later his art became more traditional as he began painting portraits later in his life. The figures in his work are very vague and undetailed, and, like the cubist style of painting, is in 2D and flat.