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David Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first photomontages was of his mother. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works. Some of these pieces are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway #2,[1][2] others being portraits, e.g. Kasmin 1982,[3] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.[4]
In October 2006 the National Portrait Gallery in London organized one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including 150 of his paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and photocollages from over five decades. The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work completed in 2005.[9] Hockney himself assisted in displaying the works, and the exhibition, which ran until January 2007, proved to be one of the most successful in the gallery's history.
Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone[13] and iPad[14] application, often sending them to his friends.[14]His show (these works discussed above) Fleurs fraîches (Fresh Flowers) is just closed at La Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris.
As I was leaving the Tate Britain, this painting by hockney caught my eye. I had forgotten how much I love his compositions in his portraits of friends & family in interiors. This painting above has many similarities to a piece of work I took a few months ago of my grandparents, commenting on the relationship between them and to their homespace. This made me realise that I want to go back to some of the ideas/thoughts I was thinking of there, to inspire my new set of family portraits. I have collected some of my favourite of Hockney
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