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A Bigger Splash Analysis

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Pop art was known as the art of popular culture, it fit in with the globalization of pop movement and youth culture. It contains different types of sculptures and paintings from different countries. An example of pop art is A Bigger Splash by David Hockney, what all pop art paintings have in common is the interest in mass culture, mass media, and mass production. Pop Art was mostly based on bright colors and youthful exploration. A Bigger Splash was painted by David Hockney who was a British artist, stage designer, photographer and printmaker. He used to base all of this paintings on pop art, his artworks were also kind of personal and abstract. Hockney studied at the Regional College of Art in Bradford. After some time, he decided to settle …show more content…

Something else that he did was that he masked the canvas, so that the natural edges of the canvas could be seen. According to an article written on pahnation.com, numerous critics said that this feature made the painting look like a polaroid picture. Pop art was known as the art of popular culture, it fit in with the globalization of pop movement and youth culture. It contains different types of sculptures and paintings from different countries. An example of pop art is A Bigger Splash by David Hockney, what all pop art paintings have in common is the interest in mass culture, mass media, and mass production. Pop Art was mostly based on bright colors and youthful exploration. A Bigger Splash was painted by David Hockney who was a British artist, stage designer, photographer and printmaker. He used to base all of this paintings on pop art, his artworks were also kind of personal and abstract. Hockney studied at the Regional College of Art in Bradford. After some time, he decided to settle in California, While in California and teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Hockney painted his famous pop art painting, “A Bigger Splash”. His inspiration for this painting came from his fascination with the abundant swimming pools in L.A and the life that was characterized by wealth, glamour, and

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