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David Hockney, British artist, dies at 88

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David Hockney, a celebrated British artist and pioneering pop‑art figure, died peacefully at his home at the age of 88. Born in Bradford in 1937 and educated at the Royal College of Art, he spent seven decades exploring painting, collage, photography and digital drawing, producing works that have become iconic in contemporary art.

  1. GB
    Keir Starmer
    Labour Party
    1. His vivid, instantly recognisable work influenced generations of artists, and the prime minister's thoughts are with his friends and family.
    2. The prime minister is saddened to hear of the death of David Hockney, one of Britain's most celebrated artists.
  2. GB
    David Hockney
    1. Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
    2. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
    3. I've been a professional painter for 60 years. Sixty years of getting up every day and doing exactly what I want to do.
    4. Human beings are the most interesting things we see, so they're the hardest to draw.
    5. I didn't have much money but I did what I wanted. ... You are a rich man if you do the things you want to do.
    6. The moment I first sold pictures to earn a living, I felt rich. I've been rich ever since.
    7. I do admire American pop — in fact it seems that everything fresh-looking and vital in England these days has been coming from the U.S.
    8. London has lots of dreary parts but I never find anything dreary in Los Angeles.
    9. I tend to think that you should work every day.
    10. I thought people who produced such work must live in colour, so I went in search of it.
    11. I feel 30 when I'm in the studio, so I come in every day and work, because then I feel 30.
  3. GB
    Simon Schama
    1. His work is admired — loved is not too strong a word — by the millions who, worldwide, flock to see it because it presupposes an expectation of pleasure.

sources

  1. 1.ABC News
  2. 2.CTV News
  3. 3.CNN
  4. 4.France 24
  5. 5.The Guardian
  6. 6.Hindustan Times
  7. 7.Associated Press
  8. 8.BBC News
  9. 9.Los Angeles Times
  10. 10.Reuters
  11. 11.The New York Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Obituary
  2. 2.Art Market
  3. 3.Contemporary art

countries

  1. 1.United KingdomGB
  2. 2.United StatesUS
  3. 3.FranceFR
  4. 4.ItalyIT

organizations

  1. 1.Tate Britain
  2. 2.Royal College of Art
  3. 3.Centre Pompidou
  4. 4.Christie
  5. 5.Royal Academy
  6. 6.Buckingham Palace
  7. 7.Crocs
  8. 8.de Young Museum
  9. 9.Japan Art Association
  10. 10.Metropolitan Museum Of Art
  11. 11.RCA Records
  12. 12.White House

persons

  1. 1.David HockneyGB
  2. 2.Andy Warhol
  3. 3.Erica Bolton
  4. 4.Alex Farquharson
  5. 5.Simon SchamaGB
  6. 6.Dennis Hopper
  7. 7.Fiona Sinclair Scott
  8. 8.Jean-Pierre Gonçalves De Lima
  9. 9.JMW Turner
  10. 10.John Kasmin
  11. 11.Keir StarmerGB
  12. 12.King Charles IIIGB

technicals

  1. 1.Pool With Two Figures
  2. 2.Chicken Noodle News
  3. 3.We Two Boys Together Clinging
  4. 4.A Bigger Splash
  5. 5.A Year in Normandie
  6. 6.Bayeux Tapestry
  7. 7.Cleaning Teeth, Early Evening
  8. 8.Doll Boy
  9. 9.Going to be a Queen for Tonight
  10. 10.iPad
  11. 11.John Moores Painting Prize
  12. 12.Life Drawing for a Diploma
David Hockney, British artist, dies at 88