Hockney was continually influenced by other art movements and technologies and utilised these continually in his work. As mentioned above his compositions, use of narrative and character and playfulness with perspective and image often created constructs and a play within a play, pictures within pictures.
Kerby (After Hogarth) Useful Knowledge 1975
This is one work that embodies all of the above comments. This is a remade Hogarth image that playfully distorts perspective whilst displaying it plainly. The fishing statue bottom right and man at the top of the hill lighting his pipe highlight this. There are also cubism undertones describing a subject an element at a time. As with a lot of Hockney's work there is plenty to keep the viewer entertained and no one central focus. This is an area I am again starting to incorporate in my work and allowing the audience to read around the image (or video) in my case and to be led around the image through multiple images and subjects.
Hockney often featured the art of creating art as one of his themes and subjects and this picture embodies that. It is a construct though and Hockney painting in the background is not Hockney in-situ but a self portrait canvas depicting himself in back of the paining. The set up creates the illusion with his boyfriend asleep in the foreground and the blue curtain creating the separation that creates the effect. This layering and constructed artificial composition really interests me and in my work the notion of a screen within a screen is an idea I want to experiment with.
Blue Stools 2014
This is an image that is really haunting in its combination of stitching together photo-realistic people and what appears like painted objects on the same canvas. The image on first looking appears real but as you spend time with it creates a feeling of the uncanny. The forces perspective of image contributes also to creating a hyper-realistic and disorientating and confusing experience for the viewer. Multiple images of the characters exaggerate this even more. This use of multiple images and forced realities are themes that I am dabbling in and want to explore further. In order to present the multifaceted sides to the characters personalities in my pieces using digital techniques but combining these with the moving image.
- Having plenty to keep the viewer entertained and no one central focus. This is an area I am again starting to incorporate in my work and allowing the audience to read around the image (or video) in my case and to be led around the image through multiple images and subjects.
- Layering and constructed artificial composition really interests me and in my work the notion of a screen within a screen is an idea I want to experiment with.
- This use of multiple images and forced realities are themes that I want to explore further. In order to present the multifaceted sides to the characters personalities in my pieces using digital techniques but combining these with the moving image.
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