‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more
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David Hockney, a Bradford-born painter who became one of the most influential contemporary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on June 11 at age 88. He rose to prominence as a pop artist in the 1960s and created celebrated works depicting California landscapes, swimming pools, and English countryside scenes, working across painting, photography, stage design, and printmaking. His works achieved enormous commercial success, with some paintings selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction, reflecting his lasting impact on global culture.
Artists and cultural figures celebrate the great Yorkshire painter who could ‘make teabags and toothpaste glamorous’ – with a poem from a fellow Yorkshireman
‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’
David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88
My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking “wow, is that what being an artist is like?” Because my mum was an artist but she wasn’t anything like that!
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