DAVID HOCKNEY

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

HOCKNEY’S JOINERS

In the early 1980’s, Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs.

Hockney created joiners was by taking multiple and varying Polaroid shots or photolab-prints of just an individual subject. Then with these shots he would arrange them into what almost looks like a patchwork, to create on overall image.

One of Hockney’s first ‘joiners’ was a photomontage of his own mother. Inspired by Cubism, Hockney created images where a 3-dimensional space was portrayed as a 2-dimensional image. Hockney’s joiners aimed to create an image that was able to show reality how we experience it (in fragments, not as a whole), and to show the passage of time.