So here is something I have ALWAYS wanted to try.......Photomontage.
I came across Hockney's work during my GCSE Art course a few years ago. Since then, whenever I have looked at composition or montage, I have always gone straight to Hockney's work. I love the way he uses a variety of images of a specific thing to make an enlarged version of that particular thing... His work is inspiring and really clever, that is why he is one of my favourite photographers of all time. When looking through a variety of his photomontage images, I prefer the images that use larger pieces to create the final image. I think I prefer these because you can see that it is a montage much more clearly, whereas in some images (such as the one above) it is not immediately clear to the viewer that it is a montage of smaller images.
However, from a lot of research into Hockney's work, I particularly like the image above because he has not filled the whole frame with images. He has chosen a particular pattern in which to fill with smaller images. I think this looks better than the other images because he could then play around with the background, having maybe a detailed background that compliments the images. I think that Hockney's work is so visually inspiring that I will try and give it a go later in the course.
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