“David Hockney was born 9 July 1937. He 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.”

Joiners

In the early 1980s Hockney began to experiment with photo collages which were famously known as “Joiners”. Hockney called photo collaging painting with photographs.

Examples of David hockney joiners

Photo Analysis

This is one of Hockney’s most famous images. it shows an elderly couple solving a crossword puzzle however Hockney has managed to achieve something in this image that is very rare, and that is the image of time. usually images only portray a simple one frame scene but in this image due to hockey’s unique joiner style he has shown multiple stages of the image that he being captured. this can be seen in the facial expressions of the models as well as the hand placement. Due to the images clearly being made up of many image many viewpoints are shown. This image seems to have natural lighting which shows that Hockney wanted this image is seem as natural as possible. However the clothing is the models seems rather formal which implies that they could be passing time before they head out.