David hockney. David Hockney. English painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer.
Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made apparent his facility as a draughtsman while studying at Bradford School of Art between 1953 and 1957. Hockney soon sought ways of reintegrating a personal subject-matter into his art. He began tentatively by copying fragments of poems on to his paintings, encouraging a close scrutiny of the surface and creating a specific identity for the painted marks through the alliance of word and image. These cryptic messages soon gave way to open declarations in a series of paintings produced in 1960–61 on the theme of homosexual love.
Hockney's subsequent development was a continuation of his student work, although a significant change in his approach occurred after his move to California at the end of 1963. DAVID HOCKNEY. David Hockney. David Hockney, OM CH (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.
He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London.[2] Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard[3] in West Hollywood.[4][5] An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.[6][7]