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Giant of British art David Hockney dies aged 88 after decades inspired by southern California
David Hockney drawing on his iPad shortly before his 80th birthday. (Supplied: Shaughn and John )
British artist David Hockney has died at the age of 88, his publicist has announced.
Born in northern England, he spent much of his life in the US, with his paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine becoming 20th-century icons.
Historian Simon Schama says Hockney's art had "popularity and durability through "restlessly inventive experiments".
Artist David Hockney, whose paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art, has died at the age of 88, his publicist has announced.
Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif.
David Hockney – a life in pictures
The artist from Bradford who rose to international fame with paintings such as A Bigger Splash has died aged 88. In later years he celebrated nature on vast canvasses
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Vale: David Hockney, artist renowned for his pool scenes, dies aged 88
Artist David Hockney, whose paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art has died, aged 88.
Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif.
Later in life, he returned to Europe, finding renewed inspiration in the wooded hills of his native county of Yorkshire and the fields and trees of France’s Normandy region. He became one of the UK’s most treasured artists, his works selling for record prices at auction.
Historian Simon Schama said that “the popularity and durability of David Hockney’s art, through all his shape-shifts and restlessly inventive experiments, are really no mystery.”
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