David Hockney

Having just been to another interesting CCS tutorial, I decided to search some of the artists mentioned during the tutorial. I typed in the name David Hockey, after one of his works, a montage-type image, caught my attention. I have now discovered an amazing new artist!

I think his photo and paint montage works are really interesting, and also apply to my work on the project. Using photos, Hockney creates places, people and still-lifes. These fragments of a place/thing are taken and re-placed back together to create new places, as with what happens when a person moves home- they take apart one place that they have become accustomed to (involving the taking down of photographs, objects and possessions) and put them back together again in anew location.

I think his work looks gorgeous and I can't wait to try making a response to this work, involving my own surroundings.