David Hockney Style Collage

 

Starting with art elements and principles this work has a heavy presence of both movement and proportion. There is movement in the multiple ways you can follow the subject looking around at his surroundings. And his facial features have been messed with in size where in some cases his eyes, mouth, or nose are larger or smaller than elsewhere in the picture. The critiques I received as suggestions were to make the background less of a focus because of the picture being too busy and in one part of the picture the top of his head was showing below his nose. So I attempted changing the background to a gray scale while keeping the color of the subject but halfway through the process I realized I personally preferred the more busy look of the picture and the gray-scale just did not look as well as expected. And I also adjusted the pictures around so that his hair would only show on the very top end of combined pictures and adjusted some of the proportions of the pictures so that all his features looked further cohesive while still being fairly disjointed. The context of this image comes in the form of my good friend having a class in a movie theater and his reactions to what it was like to be in such a strange and different learning environment. Based on his shown reactions there is a wonderment to being in a movie theater for a class but there is also a sense peculiarity towards the idea of it mainly seen towards the left side of the image. As for the process of creating the picture I had the idea in my head of radially moving outward from a straight on type of view to the side views of his face while incorporating the theater seats in weird, continuous forms in the background. So I started by simply going through all the pictures and cutting out pieces of his face and the movie theater that would lend to this idea, and from there I just kept experimenting with different positions of those pictures until I liked what I made!

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