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Hockney stated "photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops — for a split second." To overcome his dissatisfaction with photography's single-point perspective, he made numerous photographs of a scene from various vantage points and arranged the resulting prints into a cubist-like collage. His canvas-sized color visions bring together an expanded collection of components observed over time and fabricated into a grand, extended, constantly changing entirety. By interrupting space and displacing time, Hockney breaks the perspective of the Renaissance window, carrying his synthetic multifaceted representations of a subject beyond the edges of the frame, dissolving the photograph's traditional rectangle.
 
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Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK)
 
Hockney was born in Bradford, and studied at the Royal College of Art. In London, he saw American Abstract Expressionist paintings and became friendly with RB Kitaj, and other founders of British Pop Art. From the outset, Hockney was fascinated by the interplay between flat surfaces and spatial illusion, and his work is often jokey, with numerous references to popular culture and a recurrent autobiographical flavour. In 1964 he visited Los Angeles, where he later settled, and began to take polaroid photographs. Their aesthetic had a profound influence on the flat, atmospheric acrylic paintings of friends and acquaintances, often featuring Californian swimming pools, with which he rapidly established an international reputation. Hockney is a highly accomplished draughtsman and etcher, and from the 1970s emerged as a distinguished stage designer. From the 1980s, he has become increasingly fascinated by colour photography, producing photographic collages and large murals comprising prints created on a photocopier or with a laser jet printer. Britain's most consistently popular figurative artist, Hockney dislikes the label 'Pop'. He is also a highly influential commentator on his own art, and that of the past.
 
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Wikipedia
 
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington and London as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu. He has an office and stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. It broke the previous record which was set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held the record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour by selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.