David Hockney dies at 88 after reshaping British art for decades
What's new: The Bradford-born painter worked across oils, prints, photography and iPads, and one pool painting sold for nearly £70 million in 2018.
David Hockney, the British artist whose bright, immersive paintings and restless experimentation made him one of the best-known figures in modern art, has died at 88. Born in Bradford on July 9, 1937, Hockney rose to prominence in the 1960s and built a career that stretched across painting, printmaking, photography and digital work on iPads. He became especially associated with swimming pool scenes and California light, while also designing for opera and producing drawings, etchings, lithographs and stained glass. In 2018, one of his pool paintings sold for nearly £70 million, setting a record at the time for a living artist. Hockney often summed up his approach simply: “Paint the things you love.”