David Hockney Biography and Quotes
Birthday: July 9th, 1937
Commemoration: N/A
Nationality: British
82
Years Old
Famously Known For
David Hockney is remembered as one of the most important contributors to the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Pop art mainly focused on bringing more life to the boring arts found in galleries. It did so by using more color on drawings and paintings.
Early Life
David’s birthplace is at Bradford, England. He attended the Bradford college of art between 1953 and 1957 and later joined the royal college of art in London, between 1959 and 1962. At the royal college, Hockney received a gold medal for emerging top in a graduate competition.
Personal Life
David Hockney is a gay artist, and his love for same-sex relationships can be seen from his Portraiture. He has been romantically involved with Peter Schlesinger, who was an art student at UCLA.
Hockney uses hearing aids because of earing problems that he has and also holds a Marijuana verification card from California, which allows him to get the substance for medicinal purposes.
Hockney lives in London, where he also spends most of his time. He still paints, and his most recent works were his painting on iPads which allows people to rewind and see how the artist created the image.
Career
David Hockney has worked as a printmaker, photographer, and designer. After college, Hockney taught at the University of Colorado and California. This forced him to commute regularly between England and the USA. He settled in LA in 1978 because of the city’s glaring light and sleek aesthetics.
Hockney was able to publish several works of photography and other graphic materials including, the famous illustrations for the book, Six fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and also The Blue Guitar.
Other books published by David Hockney include Hockney by Hockney, paper pools, China Diary, Hockney paints the stage and Travels with pen. His publications led to him receiving the Premium Imperiale prize, from the Japan Art Association.
