Art

Audrey Flack and David Hockney have both made acrylic paintworks which have some differences as well as similarities with regard to issues like execution style and subject matter. The two painters have been singularly influential in their individual ways.

For example, paintworks depicting Californian swimming pools have been Davids main focus. Moreover, his works present potent homo-erotic themes.  Regarding style, David employs wider methods that are required by stage designs. He concentrates mostly on naturalistic artworks. In addition, he has tried producing and photography. Davids artworks fall under the pop art category.

Conversely, Audrey Flacks acrylic artworks employ photorealism. Like David, her artworks are in the pop art category.  Flacks works concentrate on paints materiality as the essence of the exterior she paints so as to materially manifest her sensory ability to take in the sparkling profusion of visual incentives that stimulate her. Flack thus differs from David because while she delves under the surface to explore mater, David dwells on surface.

In his 1967 A Bigger Splash paintwork, Hockney uses colors to portray a simplistic world view. In effect, the artist delightfully uses unresponsive pick vertical lines, reflecting Los Angeles settings as well as the sprays liveliness as a diver plunges into the pool. No human form appears in the painting.

Conversely, Flacks 1977-98 Wheel of Fortune painting is a photorealist piece in which the artist uses a profusion of numerous bright colors. Effectively, Flacks paintwork is somewhat confusing  because she uses bright colors which suggest gaiety and at the same time portrays symbols of death such as the 2 human skulls. The items which indicate cheerfulness are the bunch of grapes and the brightly burning candle. In her paintwork , Flack employs curly lines while Hockney uses rather straight lines in his paintwork.

In conclusion, both Flack and Hockney are influential 21st century painters. Hockney is a naturalistic while Flack is a photorealist painter.