In the 1960's English painter, David Hockney fell right into Pop-Art. His work that initially took off was not his paintings, but photographs. While other artists used fish-eye lenses and similar tricks to take pictures of an entire room (in order to paint it), Hockney disagreed with this practice, as the image that resulted was warped. Trying for a more realistic view, he began taking multiple polaroids of a single space.

He realized that what resulted was a piece of art in itself, a patchwork narrative of the subject, another dimension to photography. He called the pieces the joiners.

In the early 60's while still in art-school Hockney had a rash of luck in meeting Andy Warhol and getting introduced to the entire pop-art crowd. He was able to sell some work and live for a year in America. But it was not New York that Hockney had set his sights on, California would be it.

And these new L.A. Tinted paintings would define Hockney's style. His canvases were full of sculpted men, wet from the beach or swimming pool and stunning modern architecture just in the foreground. The paintings are simplistic but with a keen eye to color, lines, form and detail. They are often enormous in real life as well.

But this wasn't all that would bring Hockney fame. He is also partially credited with a major art-discovery. While studying the old masters, he found that they had been using a camera obscura technique. That all those old baroque realism paintings looked so real, because of this camera trick, where the subject was projected and traced onto the canvas. This theory has been opposed by the Art Renewal Center.

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