Biography david hockney prints swimming pool

David hockney pool series

David Hockney born 9 July is an English painter , draughtsman , printmaker , stage designer , and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington and London as well as two residences in California , where he has lived intermittently since one in the Hollywood Hills , one in Malibu.

Kitaj [ 19 ] and Frank Bowling. While at the school Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements which are similar to some of Francis Bacon 's works. When the RCA said it would not let him graduate if he did not complete an assignment of a life drawing of a live model in , Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest.

He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination and said that he should be assessed solely on his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded him a diploma. Next he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from to and then at the University of California, Berkeley in In , Hockney moved to Los Angeles , where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium using vibrant colours.

He lived at various times in Los Angeles, London, and Paris from the late s to s. In he began a decade-long personal relationship with Gregory Evans who moved with him to the US in and as of remains a business partner. In he rented a home in the Hollywood Hills ; he later bought and expanded the house to include his studio. Until , he rarely stayed for more than two weeks, [ 31 ] when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill, encouraged him to capture the local surroundings.