David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He was born on the 9th July 1937.
He is considered one of the most influential British Artists of the 20th century.
He was an important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960's. Pop Art employs aspects of mass culture such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism as well as an expansion upon them. It is also similar to the Dada movement through its similar use of images and found objects. The Pop Art movement also utilises irony a lot.
I however have been influenced by Hockney's line drawing portraits. I like the way that they are simple as they are without colour and shading. I have tried to emulate this in my work.
