David Hockney is an English artist born in 1937 who works in painting, printmaking, photography, and set design. He was an important figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s. Throughout his career, Hockney has painted portraits of friends and family, capturing their likenesses. In the 1980s, he began creating photo collages called "joiners" by combining multiple photographs. The National Portrait Gallery in London held a major retrospective of Hockney's work, including 150 paintings, drawings, prints, and photo collages spanning nearly 50 years, from early self-portraits to works completed in 2005.

1. HOW WOULD YOU REPRESENT
IDENTITY?
David Hockney

2. DAVID HOCKNEY BIOGRAPHY
 David Hockney was born in 1937 and still alive.
He is English although also lives in California
with his partner.
 He is a painter, printer, set designer and
photographer. In the 1960s he was an important
contributor to pop art.
 Hockney Painted portraits in different points in
his career. In the early 1970s, he painted friends,
lovers and relatives just under life-size that
showed a good likeness of the person.
 In the 1980s he began to make photo collages
called joiners.

3. DAVID HOCKNEY EXHIBITION
 The National Portrait Gallery in London held one
of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraits.
 There were 150
paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and
photo collages.
 The collection included nearly 50 years of work
from early self portraits to work finished in 2005.
 It was one of the gallery's most successful
exhibitions.

4. MYMOTHER1982
In this portrait of my
mother, he has used
30 separate images
taken at different
angles and
perspectives. He
hoped to show the
way that human
vision works but he
got frustrated with
photography and
returned to painting
in 1996

5. PORTRAITOFMOTHERI1985
This is the first of his
portraits of his
mother created in
1985. He made
portraits of his
parents over the
years. This is a
lithograph on paper

6. ANIMAGEOFGREGORY1984-5
This is a lithograph
influenced by Picasso
Hockney put the
lower ad upper parts
it separate frames of
different sizes
creating a confusing
illusion. Gregory was
Hockney’s assistant
and sat for him
many times

7. MY VIEWS
 I like David Hockney’s
style of art because he
does paintings and
drawings and he has
used a variety of
different techniques
throughout his life.
 Hr painted using
acrylics, oils, and
watercolour; drew with
pencil, crayon and ink.;
developed printing
techniques and
experimented with
photography.