The pool of modern art lies still: David Hockney dead at 88
The bright blue water is empty now. David Hockney, who painted that water better than any man alive or dead, died Thursday at his home in London. He was 88. His publicist said nothing more. No cause. Just the fact. The man who turned…
The bright blue water is empty now. David Hockney, who painted that water better than any man alive or dead, died Thursday at his home in London. He was 88. His publicist said nothing more. No cause. Just the fact. The man who turned swimming pools into poetry could not swim himself. That irony would have pleased him. He liked contradictions.
