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 likepatchwork

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.