"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. No prior immersion in learned literature is required for admission to Hockney’s many gardens of visual delight."
Sean Carroll
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Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
