"For anyone wanting to narrow the distance between the “art world” and the public, Hockney’s unapologetic striving for the rejoicing of the eye must be a cause for celebration, not least because modernism and postmodernism have long had mixed feelings about the value of pleasure."
Siem De Cleyn
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Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
