David hockney art

One of England’s most versatile and inventive artists of the postwar era, Hockney became widely known in the 1960s for his vivid landscapes, domestic scenes, and intimate portraits born in California. The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 marks his third series documenting the blossoming of spring, having done his first in 2011 and the second in 2013. For this latest project, he observed the richness of the season from the bucolic surroundings of rural Normandy. Working en plein air (in the…

David Hockney is one of the most influential living artists, whose contribution to the development of Pop Art and contemporary art overall is great.

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A world premiere exhibition focuses on the last decade of the British artist’s vibrant work, including hundreds of images the 79-year-old artist drew on apps

This project was a lot of fun and the technique is extremely effective. The artists range between four and eight years old. We started the session by looking at an iconic work of art – Portra…

A world premiere exhibition focuses on the last decade of the British artist’s vibrant work, including hundreds of images the 79-year-old artist drew on apps

The famously reclusive octogenarian artist invites AD into his vivid L.A. idyll on the eve of a major video installation

Last year David Hockney moved from Yorkshire to LA. It has rejuvenated him, he tells Tim Lewis, before answering questions from Observer readers and leading cultural figures

David Hockney (British, b. 1937) has produced some of the most vividly recognizable and influential works of the twentieth century. Hockney gained notoriety in his mid-twenties, after receiving the Gold Medal from London’s Royal College of Art, and he quickly became one of the defining figures of the British Pop Art movement. In the late 1960s Hockney relocated to California and established himself as a prolific figurative and landscape artist. He is perhaps best recognized for the works he…