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David Hockney — Ashtray, Sunday Morning Tokyo, Feb.
David Hockney

Ashtray, Sunday Morning Tokyo, Feb.

A vibrant photographic collage by David Hockney captures the intimate stillness of a Sunday morning in Tokyo, fragmenting and reassembling the mundane object of an ashtray through multiple perspectives and moments in time. True to Hockney's signature "joiner" technique, the work challenges conventional single-point perspective by layering photographs to create a cubist-inspired exploration of time and space. Presented in the artist's original frame, the piece elevates an everyday subject into a meditation on perception and the act of looking itself.

Medium
Photographic collage, in the artist's original frame.

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April 1, 2014

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David Hockney, Ashtray, Sunday Morning Tokyo, Feb.

A vibrant photographic collage by David Hockney captures the intimate stillness of a Sunday morning in Tokyo, fragmenting and reassembling the mundane object of an ashtray through multiple perspectives and moments in time. True to Hockney's signature "joiner" technique, the work challenges conventional single-point perspective by layering photographs to create a cubist-inspired exploration of time and space. Presented in the artist's original frame, the piece elevates an everyday subject into a meditation on perception and the act of looking itself.

Medium
Photographic collage, in the artist's original frame.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodern Art, Urban Everyday Life, Male Artist, Celebrated Contemporary Master, Cubist Influence, Mixed Media, Fragmented Perspective, British Artist, Japanese Subject Matter, Muted Tones, Contemporary Master, Everyday Objects, Late 20th Century, Still Life, Photographic Collage

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Jonathan Murray, Alex Capecelatro, Richard Caswell, Sebastián In Situ, John McNally, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Andrew P. Cooper, Lisa Rembrandt, Art Institute of Chicago, Nick Phoenix , Derek Jones