Artists: David Hockney and Alexa Meade

I found both of these artists' works to be very intriguing. Artwork from these artists were posted on my Digital Art class blog and they caught my attention. Both of their works play interesting tricks on the eye.

Meade paints real people, so that they appear to be 2-D images on a flat surface. She often interacts, as an unpainted object, with her subjects, making it appear as though a painting has come to life and entered the viewer's world.




Hockney takes multiple photographs of a 3-D object from various distances and perspectives. He then re-pieces these photographs together to distort and essentially flatten out the subject. The viewer thus is able to view one image from a variety of viewpoints at one time.

Both artists play with 3-D and 2-D design to effectively engage the viewer.