David Hockney's joiners have inspired many artists, designers, and photographers since their initial creation.
What is Juxtaposition?
Juxtaposition (pronounced juhk-stuh-puh–zish–uh-n) is the placement of two or more things side by side, oftentimes in order to bring out their differences. Read more here.
Chuck Close
David Hockney invented "joiners," but Chuck Close has been painting in a similar style for a long time. We can gain inspiration from some of his images below and on his site.
Just Such a Great Site
David Hockney's "Joiners"
Today we are exploring how we can create images that are both VARIED and COHESIVE. We should include multiple angles and perspectives, while still maintaining a sense of the portrait as a unified whole. Just like our identities, these portraits are both multiple and one.
I Simply Refuse...
“What I represent in fact, what I’m trying like hell to represent every time I go into that hotel room, is myself. That’s what I’m trying to do. And I miss most of the time on that: I do not represent blacks or tall women, or women or Sonomans or Californians or Americans. Or rather I hope I do, because I am all those things. But that is not all that I am. I am all of that and more and less. People often put labels on people so they don’t have to deal with the physical fact of those people. It’s easy to say, oh, that’s a honkie, that’s a Jew, that’s a junkie, or that’s a broad, or that’s a stud, or that’s a dude. So you don’t have to think: does this person long for Christmas? Is he afraid that the Easter bunny will become polluted? … I refuse that… I simply refuse to have my life narrowed and proscribed.”
Welcome!
This week we will be getting to know each other, and beginning to investigate the idea of IDENTITY as a class and in our individual work. What is identity? How does this photograph relate to the concept of identity?
