David Hockney Joiner

David Hockney is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. Hockney was an extremely important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s and considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

Hockney’s portrait photo-montages are both simple and effective which is what I would like to try and recreate with my rendition of portrait photo-montage.

My Outcome

The image below is one that I made during the Christmas break. To create this image I had to collect images from different celebrities facial features from the internet. I took Elvis’s hair, Zac Effron’s eye, Ed Sheeran’s eye, Cate Blanchett’s ear, Chris Hemsworth’s chin, Will Smith’s ear and the background facial shape and mouth of Leonardo De Caprio.

I created the image above as a test run to see if my idea of cutting out facial features and merging different features from different people worked which it did. I really like my first attempt at portrait photo-montage because it is simple but effective and has features from different people of different countries, races and genders that overlap and don’t perfectly fit on the facial template. This creates a sense of imperfection which is similar to David Hockney.

The image below is my second and third rendition of portrait photo-montage. For these images, I took photos of two classmates and myself and cut up the facial features from different angles and lighting. To make these images I collected many different images I previously took from a studio portrait project. I then took the images and cropped them so that only the facial feature I needed for the montage was showing. Next I got a base background image to use as a facial template and dropped the individual features onto the background creating the portrait photo-montage.

I like the outcomes of the portrait photo montage task because it shows a link to David Hockney Joiner with the idea of multiple pictures and identities within one person.