Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died • ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’ • David Hockney’s life in pictures David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary ga...
Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died• ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’• David Hockney’s life in picturesDavid Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...
