Oh no!! What a loss!
A true artistic explorer and thinker. There will never be another Hockney.
The Hockney exhibit at the Portland Art Museum earlier this year was one of my favorites I’ve seen.
Scott Kersey, art fella
Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88
Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died
David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.
He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...www.theguardian.com
