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- Hockney was born in the city of Bradford, in the English county of Yorkshire, in 1937. Bradford had been a hub of the wool trade since the industrial revolution.
- David was the fourth of five children born to Laura and Kenneth Hockney. The former was a strict vegetarian and devout Methodist, the latter a clerk at a local accountancy firm who was also an amateur artist (with a particular fondness for photography).
- As a young man, Hockney was a conscientious objector – meaning he refused to complete his National Service in the army. He spent two years as an orderly at St Luke’s Hospital in Bradford instead.
- After initial studies at Bradford School of Art, in 1959 he moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art (RCA) – where he counted Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips, Allen Jones and Patrick Caulfield among his peers.
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dec 29, 2019 · David Hockney is one of the most influential living artists of the 20th century. He made his mark during the 1960s and continues to remain relevant today. Dec 29, 2019 • By Kaylee Randall. Born in Bradford, UK in 1937, David Hockney studied at the Royal College of Art in London under heavyweights such as Francis Bacon and Peter Blake.
- Kaylee Randall
Intentionally or inadvertently, Hockney has never disconcerted his public — there is simply not enough grit in his oyster. The edgiest he has been is in his images of his gay milieu, notably the 13 etchings for Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from CP Cavafy he made in 1966, a year before the legalisation of homosexuality.
Although a seductive depiction of a dream place, A Bigger Splash is not just about that. According to Hockney, the real subject is the split-second moment of the splash itself, frozen on canvas. Hockney painted the picture from a photograph of a splash taken by someone else.
When the British artist David Hockney arrived in LA in 1963, he fell in love. The city – and its swimming pools – would become his greatest subject, writes Alastair Sooke.
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Hockney’s series of etchings depict a journey of self-discovery, in which a young artist and gay man struggles to find his way in 1960s New York. Although Hockney uses his own experiences to inform the graphic tale, he states ‘it is not really me.
