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    David Hockney's painting "My Parents" depicts his mother and father sitting in their home. His mother sits upright and attentive, while his father sits slouched, absorbed in reading. Each object has a clearly defined color. The painting provides insight into typical gender roles of the time, with the attentive mother and working father. Students could recreate rooms from their own homes from memory to share aspects of their lives and build connections. Key questions examine Hockney's color palette, subjects, and inclusion of objects between the figures.

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    David Hockney's painting "My Parents" depicts his mother and father sitting in their home. His mother sits upright and attentive, while his father sits slouched, absorbed in reading. Each object has a clearly defined color. The painting provides insight into typical gender roles of the time, with the attentive mother and working father. Students could recreate rooms from their own homes from memory to share aspects of their lives and build connections. Key questions examine Hockney's color palette, subjects, and inclusion of objects between the figures.

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    David Hockney's painting "My Parents" depicts his mother and father sitting in their home. His mother sits upright and attentive, while his father sits slouched, absorbed in reading. Each object has a clearly defined color. The painting provides insight into typical gender roles of the time, with the attentive mother and working father. Students could recreate rooms from their own homes from memory to share aspects of their lives and build connections. Key questions examine Hockney's color palette, subjects, and inclusion of objects between the figures.

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    Visual Culture Database Form ARTE 344/544 Spring 2021

    Provider: Eva Lord


    VCDB #:
    6
    Big Idea/Subject:
    Family
    Major Theme:
    Home life
    Medium/ Presentation:
    Oil painting
    Visual Components:
    Color, space, texture,
    balance, emphasis
    Category:
    Fine Arts
    Pop art
    Pop culture
    Non-art

    Authorship: David Hockney


    Title: My Parents
    Original Location: Tate
    Description/Interpretation My Parents by David Hockney is a clean cut and brightly
    : colored painting. With a solid background it is easy to pick
    out what Hockney is trying to emphasize, his parents. The
    figure on the left, the mother, sits upright and attentive
    and the figure on the right, the father, sits slouched and
    absorbed in his reading. Each object in the room has a
    very defined color with the exception of some reflected
    colors in highlights, such as their shoes and the father’s
    jacket. Diving further into this piece explains the behavior
    of his family with his mother looking directly at him and
    his father fully ignoring him. This is an example of what
    many households were like at this point in time. The
    attentive stay at home mother and the working father that
    takes his free time for himself. The sharp lines and clean
    features of the composition are a nod to the lifestyle that
    was most likely encouraged in Hockney’s life. Books
    perfectly arranged, fresh flowers, mother and father
    dressed nicely but only half the attention is there.
    Use in Teaching (Lesson Lesson: Students could expand upon this piece of art by
    Idea)/3-5 Guiding creating a composition of a room in their home. This
    Questions: would not be a still life, it would be what they can recall
    from memory. Creating this from memory will allow for
    the students to pick out pieces of their home that are
    significant and add pieces in that may not actually be
    there to help emphasize the atmosphere. This lesson will
    encourage students to share their home lives with each
    other and help uncover aspects of their home they did not
    realize were important. Seeing a depiction of each other’s
    homes could help the students feel more connected to one
    another when they see how their home lives make them
    feel
    Guiding Questions:
    1. What is the significance of the artists color palette?
    2. What is the main subject(s) of this painting?
    3. Why do you think the artist included the objects
    between the two figures in the composition?
    Image Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-my-
    parents-t03255

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