Pop Artist, David Hockney's Three Pieces

David Hockney: Pop Artist

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Introduction

Pop culture holds different meanings depending on the context of use. However, pop culture is the society’s way of life. It is characterized by beliefs, manners, duties, approaches, and perceptions that describe people. It is determined by the relations among people in their daily activities; their way of wearing, their dialect, their ceremonies, and their cultural foods are all examples of pop culture. Pop culture involves the growth of products such as music, art, literature, and fashion among others, for consumption by a majority of the society. Accessibility of the content is a major characteristic of the pop culture.

David Hockney is one of the most powerful British painters who use pop culture elements in his art. He is well recognized for his sequential paintings of portraits of friends, verdant landscapes, and swimming pools. He emerged in an artistic climate that allowed mass culture and consumerism. The British culture was being exchanged by a less discriminatory view that acknowledged values of all forms of period, culture, and fabrication. By the time Hockney emerged, his predecessors like Richard Hamilton had paved the way for his type of art, which made it easy for people to appreciate it. Also, the changing nature of the education in the British culture assisted him in obtaining training in his career. David Hockney’s work is a perfect example of pop culture because unlike most of the other pop artists, he did several things that separated him from them.

Hockney played an important role in reviving symbolic painting in an elegance that referenced the photographic language of advertising. Unlike the rest of the pop artists, Hockney was passionate with cubism, and his art joined a number of scenes to produce a compound view like the Grand Canyon, where there was a task on depth observation. Hockney insisted on a personal subject matter for his work; which depi...