David Hockney

David Hockney

Hockney was born 9 July 1937(age 78) and, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is known for experimenting with different media's. He is known for painting, print making, photography and set design. He studied art in the UK before moving to California in 1963. In the 1960's he began to experiment with acrylic paints and created collages from his own photographs. When the arrival of pop art accrued he associated with the movement, but his early work displayed expressionist elements. In 2008 David began to create pieces digitally through experimenting with drawing apps on his iPhone and ipad.   

David Hockney's Pop Art 

 IPad Art
In an interview, David Hockney described using an iPad as an "endless piece of paper". To create "iPad art, David uses several apps including "brushes" which was created by a former apple engineer Steve spang. Hockney uses his ipad and iPhone because the features on the apps and device tend to shape and illuminate his choice of subject. For example, drawings such as flower vases, water and sunshine illuminate on the screen from the applications on the ipad. David has created pieces such as flowers, landscapes, faces, everyday objects, scissors, electric plugs and feet. He prefers to use fingers than a stylus because it gives varied effects such as brush strokes, colours and drawing techniques to his pieces of art.

David Hockney first experimented with computers around 20 years ago but he found the process slow and frustrating due to lack of technical processes. He believed that old computers always had a delay but he finds modern day technology to be a "new dimension". Creating art on modern computers for David Hockney is “attractive” because of new features such as animations which gives his pieces more individuality.

David Hockney revealed his work at an exhibition in San Francisco 2013, 150 IPad paintings were displayed. Some of the pieces displayed were overlapped so that the visitors can see how they were created. Also in exhibitions David Hockney displayed his work by canvas and on several IPads.

                                 

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