David Hockney

When did the Cubist Period occur? Who is credited with this style? What are aspects featured of the Cubist Artwork?

The Cubist period was the 20th century, Between the years 1907 and 1914. In paris Pablo Picasso and George Braque created the paintings. The Cubist style was basically from techniques of two dimensional, flat, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling and more. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space. They presented more of new paintings that radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were seen simultaneously.

Who is David Hockney? What kind of work does/has he done? What Cubist features do you notice in David Hockney's work? Where and how might he have been influenced by the cubist period?

David Hockney is still alive today and is a  British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer. He became internationally successful in his mid- 20’s and has stayed known as the most well known British artist of his generation. His success isn’t just from his art and photographs, it’s from his personality that apparently people love. Most of his photographs were considered “Pop Art” In California 1960’s, he looked at his art differently, he looked at the sky, the sea, the sun, young men, and luxury increasing Naturalistic Dimension. Cubist's looked from different views. Hockney was most likely was influenced by the cubist period by all the people that were in California.