
David Hockney
42 1/8 x 69 1/4 in.
The print depicts a photomontage of visitors to a gallery, where the walls are adorned with Hockney’s portraits. In the foreground can be seen two of Hockney’s Studio assistants: Jonathan Mills and Jonathan Wilkinson. The distorted perspective of the print immediately stands out to viewers. This creates a juxtaposition between the realism of the photographic medium with the abstraction of the perspective. Hockey described his approach to perspective, saying “Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective. The problem is the foreground and the vanishing point. The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point, is that it came from optics… this is why there is always a void between you and the photograph. I am taking this void away, to put you in the picture."
Publications
This can be found on the David Hockney Foundation website: https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/artwork/5016David Hockney Painting & Photography (Published by Annely Juda & L A Louver: Illustrated.Taschen: “ David Hockney : A Chronology” Illustrated on page 493