Joiners
http://www.hockneypictures.com/works.php
David
Hockney
• born in England, 1937 (74 years old now)
• one of the most influential artists of the
20th century
• considered to be in the Pop Art
movement, friends with Andy Warhol
• interested in the full arts spectrum:
painter, draftsman, photographer, film
What are Joiners?
• Photographic collages, Polaroid composites
• Take pictures of one subject through different
views, move around the room, a narrative, tells a
story, alters the perspective
• Appears like
patchwork
Hockney’s joiners share traits with Cubism
• Traits of cubism: objects are broken up, analyzed, and
re-assembled in an abstracted form
• The artist depicts the subject from several viewpoints.
• The surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, no
coherent sense of depth. The background and object
planes interpenetrate one another to create the
shallow ambiguous space.
• Pablo Picasso was a leader in Cubism.
Cubism – painting
Hockney - collage
Purely accidental
• While working on a
painting of a living room
and terrace in Los
Angeles, he took
Polaroid shots of the
living room and glued
them together as a
preparatory work, not
intending for them to
be a composition on
their own.
• Upon looking at the
final composition, he
realized it created a
narrative, as if the
viewer was moving
through the room.
Portraits too
Grid with borders
Notice how
zoomed in each
picture is. Some
squares are only
filled with floor.
Your Joiners:
• Choose a subject (if it’s outside of school you
must use your own camera).
• Take at least 30 pictures. Make sure to move
around to change your view. Zoom in for
details.
• Import them onto your computer.
• Use Photoshop to arrange them in an
interesting way. Either overlapping or leaving
a border.