<b>David Hockney</b>
(1982) 

Next works by Hockney are from the series of photo collage works. Hockney would use many pieces of photographs to develop a montage that would show a wholesome picture but appear distorted. 
The style of this montage was termed Photo Joiners by Hockney. He shared that these works are inspired by Cubism. He stated, “Cubism is difficult to grasp, even for me. I’ve looked at some cubist paintings for 25 years without understanding them. People said cubism led to abstraction but that’s another art-history swindle. Suddenly I see cubism differently, more clearly. And my experiments have led me to a couple of theories of my own…”

Gregory Swimming, Los Angeles
1982
Composite polaroid
68.5 x 130 cm
Private collection

Gregory Swimming, Instalation