David Hockney

David Hockney is an artist who has produced pieces with multiple different mediums. He began with painting and drawing. He has made etchings, photographs, has designed multiple stage sets, and has made an art car. He has been working since the 1950s and grew with the changing pace of the world, he has most recently made a series of still-lifes using an iPhone painting app. He has taught at colleges all over the U.S. and has traveled all over the world.

Pearblossom Highway, 11-18 April 1986 | photographic collage

I chose this piece because I love how he cut up images he took of the road from different angles and put them back together in a cubist way. Cutting up the images also makes the sky more interesting and the contrast between the grey/brown land and the bright sky blue more pronounced. I like how the yellow line in the road doesn't look as cut up as the rest of the photo and how on the left side of the road you can't really see the difference of the dirt and the pavement. The way Hockney arranged the pieces of photos makes the road look like it's curving but it also looks straight. The photo as a whole looks mismatched but in a way that is pleasing to the eye.