#DavidHockney, iconic British #artist known for his colorful landscapes & pool scenes, dies at 88
Historian Simon Schama said it’s no mystery why his work is so enduringly appealing.
“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,” Schama wrote in an essay accompanying a 2025 #Hockney exhibition in Paris.
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https://apnews.com/article/david-hockney-artist-death-79ddb3813406f21a8859d3b22e653852
With his trademark round glasses & bleached-blond hair, #Hockney was a well-known figure in the swinging British & US art scenes of the 1960s, even before he reached the age of 30. His paintings were just as distinctive, many of them creating a dreamlike world of patterned light bouncing off water & windows, & human forms rendered in flattened, simplified shapes in matte acrylic paint.
