David Hockney - My Mother Evaluation

David Hockney - ‘My Mother’

Content

This is an image of David Hockney’s mother that he has rearranged to show different sides of her face. This was taken in Yorkshire, England.  He created photomontage images between the years of 1970s and 1986. This image seems to represent the different sides of a person’s image. He has called this photomontage ‘My Mother’ as it is a photo of this mum. The title changes the way that I see this image because at first I didn’t know who this person was but now I understand that it is his Mother, which shows that this picture hold sentimental value to him.

Each separate photograph within the image is a realistic depiction but the composition of the image is not realistic. The theme of this photograph is cubism which makes it more visually appealing.

The message that I get from this image is that his mother is old and frail which is represented in the separate photographs of her eyes. But the centre of this image, her smile, shows that although she is old, she is happy.   

Form

The photograph is in colour which helps to convey emotion as we see the pink in her cheeks which shows life. The lines that are represented are the outline of each photograph which help to block each picture and helps to form the stylistic features of cubism. The contrast is neither high nor low as there is a difference between light and dark but not to an extreme level.  The shapes used are a range of rectangles and squares which adds variety as well as focuses on some facial features.

Process

The photograph was taken outside, during the day time. Natural day light was used to light up the image. This is clear as there is not much harsh lighting and the skies appear to be grey.

The only way in which that the photograph has been manipulated is through the use of composition.   This was done to make the image more interesting

Mood

This photograph immediately made me feel inspired due to its interesting composition.  This made me feel like this because I have seen this picture before and I have wanted to do something similar to this.

Research

Alix Maklka

Alix Maklka was born in the south of france. He was first an art director which then lead him into fashion photography. First his main focous as an art director was props and objects but that soon turned to clothing when he became intrested in fashion. I have chosen this artist because his use of colour, fashion and models is quite unique and visually appealing. This will inspire me within my work because i will experiment with the use of colour.

David LaChapelle

dave was born in march of 1963 and his work follows a hyper-realistic aesthetic style with social messages combined. His work caught the eye of Andy warhol who then offered him a job at a magazine. This lead to his intrest in the music indusrty which is why he moved on to, making music videos. I have chosen him because he uses very vibrant colours and I also like the play ful background images.

Mann Ray

mann ray was born on  August 27, 1890 and died on  November 18, 1976 and lived most of his life in france alothough he was American.  His style was surrealism and most of his images were black and white. He was also a renowned fashion photographer. He was influenced by Bill Brandt. The thing that inspires me is the way he caputures emotion through the eyes of his model. I also like the way he uses a props such as gems to represent tear drops.

David Hockney

David Hockney was born on 9 July 1937  and lived in yorkshire in the uk. His main style is pop art and also follows a cubism theme much like Pablo picasso who was his main influence for this picture. I have chosen him because i admire the way he uses compistion in his work. This use of compersition will inspire my work later on.

Love or Hate

I have listed the things that I love and hate. this was done in order for me to figure out what I love and hate.
This will make producing my visual mind map much easier. from this I have learnt the things I love and the things I hate.

Visual Mindmap

 in this slide i have chose things that i love such as my phone studded fashion and babies. i added pictures to the slide. i did this in order to give me a visual idea of what i love. It relates to my theme because this is the things i love so i might take pictures of them later on. this has helped me to decide on the things that i actually love.

In this slide I have added images that represent the things that I hate. I added pictures to this slide to show this. this was done in order to give me an idea of the things that I hate, which i will be using as inspiration later on when I take my own photos.