Art In The Mirror

July9,1937, David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in northernEngland town, very interested in art from an early age, after studies at the RoyalAcademy of Fine Arts has trained many masters, after years in the arts and morepractice areas, and now has nearly eight-year-old David Hockney become one of themost widely influential artists since the1960s, has been active in the modern andcontemporary art among the Lu Xi’an Freud famous painting in the United Kingdom.His paintings absorbed the traditional, modern and contemporary art in each periodnutrients, forming a personal painting style varied characteristics. His themes andforms reflect the characteristics of his paintings.From Hockney painting thematic analysis, mainly in the character of his earlytheme, later turned to a huge landscape painting. His screen content is not illusory,but is associated with the artist ’s life experiences reality content. Whether in figuresor landscapes as a theme of his paintings always have a theme that depicts the familiarthings, emotional factors are a major factor in his selection. From his lifeexperiences, preferences, concerns himself from the process to the attention of thesociety to extract the things he wanted to express. His topic is not with thetransformation of his style changed, his pursuit of diverse forms, but also stick totheir theme. This is his main characteristics different from other genres.Hockney painting from formal language analysis, roughly divided into fourstages, from the abstract to the naturalistic character figurative, from photography tocollage with enhanced color impressionist style. He also mapped out the form to change the atmosphere around him artistic environment. In the era of abstract figures,it is also the most influential school of abstract expressionism period. The initialstages of the second period is affected by pop culture, then shift to a more naturalisticvisualize. And he has the Impressionist style of painting scenery, return to the Britishtradition of landscape subjects, the use of Chinese scroll paintings and personal wayof viewing the formation of a unique color sense now form painting.Hockney and is closely related to the development of modern painting process,while continuously from his breakthrough painting artists will also reflect the creationof self-criticism for the innovative spirit of the historical starting point, but never torepeat history. His paintings follow the development of the times, but not completelydependent on a particular form of language in the face of a variety of art forms he"absorbing are I " side of his artistic practice is like a mirror reflection of the externalpainting and inherent to the development of Chinese contemporary painting hascorresponding revelation.