David Hockney is a British born photographer, painter, draughtsman, print maker,stage designer. He is a vital part of the pop art movement which took place in the 60’s

He attend the Royal College of Art in 1959-1962 when there he said that he took the most pride in his work.  Whilst at the college he was featured in the  Young Contemporaries exhibition which also featured Peter Blake this exhibit began the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist element. When the Royal College of Art said it would not let him graduate in 1962, Hockney drew the sketch The Diploma in protest. He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be assessed solely on his artworks.

Image analysis 

The images that make up this image have been taken in natural daylight, by the colour and angle of the sun it looks as if the image was taken at midday.The angles in which David took the images it makes the image very 2D is a feature of Davids work. The colours in the very saturated which is to highlight the different areas of light and shade in the image. The lightest part of the image which draws the onlookers attention to the centre of the image. This is one of Hockney’s most famous called ‘Joiners of an American Highway’. This image is made out of thousands of smaller photographs and in real life is almost 2 meters high by 3 meters wide. The full image took 8 full days for David to complete.In this image there many different textures in the image, for example, the texture of the road is very rough in contrast to the texture of the sky which is smooth.