DAVID HOCKNEY PARAGRAPH.
‘Distrusts claims as to its greater reality’
Photography is problematic to DH, he says Photography produces a poor representation of a moment. ‘Suggests the only thing photography was much good at conveying was another flat surface’- . Within a photograph you only see a split second. A camera doesent work in the same way your eyes do. It is not realistic, it can not be what we see. We do not capture/see a moment in one blink. Our eyes are constantly darting around the subject, looking at different areas, so our brains can form a clear image in our mind. A photograph however, presents this whole moment, this whole second all at once. According to Hockney, this means they depict ’something you never actually saw’, thus making the photograph ‘flat’ and ‘lifeless’ and unable to hold our attention. (QUOTE), DH uses erotic photographs to illustrate this idea. He claims that, when looking at erotic photographs he struggles to ‘find them lively’, ‘life is precisely what they don’t have’. He goes on to say, the reason for this lack of energy he feels from a photograph is due to the lack of time within it. ‘There is virtually no time in it’. He feels the time within a piece of work is what causes our attraction to it. Therefore, this is the reason he feels he can stare at a painting for a long period of time, …show more content…
The way in which he has fragmented the image of the subject. David Hockney, views the aim of cubist art to express ‘the structure of seeing the object’. “hockneys collages , like cubism, are a record of human looking. It is exactly the point that an automatic machine could not have possibly generated them.” Clearly this way of looking at a situation, and paintings by artists such as Picasso… was a big influence upon this piece of work. (interesting how the photographs were inspired by paintings of cubism)
‘Distrusts claims as to its greater reality’
Photography is problematic to DH, he says Photography produces a poor representation of a moment. ‘Suggests the only thing photography was much good at conveying was another flat surface’- . Within a photograph you only see a split second. A camera doesent work in the same way your eyes do. It is not realistic, it can not be what we see. We do not capture/see a moment in one blink. Our eyes are constantly darting around the subject, looking at different areas, so our brains can form a clear image in our mind. A photograph however, presents this whole moment, this whole second all at once. According to Hockney, this means they depict ’something you never actually saw’, thus making the photograph ‘flat’ and ‘lifeless’ and unable to hold our attention. (QUOTE), DH uses erotic photographs to illustrate this idea. He claims that, when looking at erotic photographs he struggles to ‘find them lively’, ‘life is precisely what they don’t have’. He goes on to say, the reason for this lack of energy he feels from a photograph is due to the lack of time within it. ‘There is virtually no time in it’. He feels the time within a piece of work is what causes our attraction to it. Therefore, this is the reason he feels he can stare at a painting for a long period of time, …show more content…
The way in which he has fragmented the image of the subject. David Hockney, views the aim of cubist art to express ‘the structure of seeing the object’. “hockneys collages , like cubism, are a record of human looking. It is exactly the point that an automatic machine could not have possibly generated them.” Clearly this way of looking at a situation, and paintings by artists such as Picasso… was a big influence upon this piece of work. (interesting how the photographs were inspired by paintings of cubism)