Artistic Picture example essay topic

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david hockney artist or illustrator? David hockney is arguably the greatest living british artist for me. Hia art is by now so varied that it can hardly be summer ised. to begin the breakdown of this study i intend to initially look at his swimming pool series done mainly in the 1970's. Then his photomontages. Hockney was fascinated with the formal and technical problems associated with the representation of transparent surfaces, particularly water. the colour in the sky is represented as blue in all of his works so very literal. The rivers however has its own motions and depths and distortions.

The colour of the sky in the water is perceived as something quite different. Hockney experimented with different techniques to show this. Hockney segments his work so that various focal points can be viewed. Each box has its on individual point giving it more realistic motions. He "compartmentalizes" the movement of the diver. It tells a narrative, the clear divide between each section immediatly tells a progressive story.

Your eye is allowed to choose which way to read it. You can make your own logic out of the pictures he does. I personally think it is more artistic than graphic. A painting that isnt as easy to say if it leans towards been more or less artistic is", A bigger splash" done in 67.

He deals with the waters surface very graphically. The diver is absent from the picture but the evidence leads us to believe that a diver has just dived in to the pool, but without creating the rings of movement expected. This offering the viewer the chance to decide there own time in such a timeless painting. Although in appearance it seems graphically orientated, the theme and composition make up for an artistic picture..