Pop art is one of the defining art movements of the twentieth century; now being promptly recognisable and generally understood, it is much a part of popular culture as art history. Pop Art had a great number of artists who explored their work through this movement. One artist being David Hockney, who is an English Pop/Modernist Artist, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer born in 1937 Bradford, UK. During the Pop Art movement, Hockney painted his most recognisable and significant paintings, his swimming pool artworks that he is widely known for, one being “A Bigger Splash” (1967).
In the years following World War II, Hockney was an emerging artist in the mid 1950’s - early 1960’s, who painted in the modernist era, during the mid-20th Century. Pop Arts subject matter …show more content…
Pop artists like Hockney, began to look for inspiration in the world around them, representing, making art directly from everyday items and mass media. They did this in a straightforward manner, using bold primary colours, often straight from the can or tube of paint. They produced multiples of works, downplaying the artist’s hand and subverting the idea of originality—in contrast with the highly expressive, large-scaled abstract works of the Abstract Expressionists, whose work had dominated post-war American art. Pop artists favoured realism, everyday imagery, and heavy doses of irony. Like other Pop artists, Hockney’s revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising approach and centred on the common and people of
In the years following World War II, Hockney was an emerging artist in the mid 1950’s - early 1960’s, who painted in the modernist era, during the mid-20th Century. Pop Arts subject matter …show more content…
Pop artists like Hockney, began to look for inspiration in the world around them, representing, making art directly from everyday items and mass media. They did this in a straightforward manner, using bold primary colours, often straight from the can or tube of paint. They produced multiples of works, downplaying the artist’s hand and subverting the idea of originality—in contrast with the highly expressive, large-scaled abstract works of the Abstract Expressionists, whose work had dominated post-war American art. Pop artists favoured realism, everyday imagery, and heavy doses of irony. Like other Pop artists, Hockney’s revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising approach and centred on the common and people of