David Hockneys photocollages inspired me to try to create my own versions in this style using photographs of my bedroom. Hockney referred to these images as his "joiners," Hockneys creation of the "joiners" occured accidentally. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in L.A., he took polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. Upon looking at the final composition, he realised it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. I have tried to recreate this feel in exploring this technique with my own images.

I researched a more contemporary British artist called Brian Clarke because I like the way he works with stained glass. He designed and created the stained glass windows in Leeds victoria quarter. I used influence from his work in my first main of A2 because I admire his use of colour and abstract shapes it is unequaled. He has said himself that his main influences were or rather are William Morris, John Piper and Johannes Schreiter.

I love how abstract Mondrians work is. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who evolved a "non representational form" which he called Neo Plasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colours red, yellow and blue.

I have researched Gilbert and Georges work during this projet because I really liked the use of non-naturalistic colours such as acid yellows, bright greens and deep blues. Gilbert and Georges colour use is almost artificial or plastic, which sort of makes snese because they worked on perspex a lot. Each of their compositions is almost an advert in itself, because of the harsh grids and lines, which strongly links this kind of work so strongly with Pop art.
In a way Gilbert and Georges work is an observation or advertisment of the world around them at that time. It expresses a 20th century view of a man made world and the message it conveys is "It's a mans world!"