My parents went to art school in the early 50s, from working class backgrounds in the East Midlands . Hockney was a hero to them, and a symbol of post-war British creativity and possibility, in a way which is hard to imagine now. He could paint too. Wonderful obit 👇
Emily Bell
Across a long lifetime and productive until the end, David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain’s most popular artist, and one of very few painters anywhere to be a household name: ft.trib.al/1YrcUn3
