The Red Table marks an intersection between art and technology. This print, created in 2014, marks David Hocney’s ability to keep up with the changing approaches to art as the presence of technology increases.
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."