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Artist a Day:  David Hockney

Artist a day! DAVID HOCKNEY (born 1937)  David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, scene designer, photographer, and graphic painter.

Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 193 cm, 1998

Garrowby Hill

Hockney's Works

Oil on 50 canvases and  100 prints on paper, 2008

Bigger Trees Near Water

Hockney's Works

He is viewed as one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century and a vital contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s.

Acrylic on canvas, 169 x 168 cm, 1964

Man Taking Shower in Beverly Hills

Hockney's Works

"A Bigger Splash" is possibly David Hockney's most famous artwork painted in 1967.

Acrylic on canvas 242.5 x 243.9 cm, 1967

Bigger Splash

Hockney's Works

His 1972 painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" became the most pricey artwork by a living artist sold at auction for $90.3m (£70.3m) in 2018.

Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 x 305.1 cm, 1971

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

Hockney's Works

Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 182.88 cm, 1990

Small Santa Monica and the Bay from the Mountains

Hockney's Works

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Famous Quote by  David Hockney

Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm, 1979

Santa Monica Boulevard

Hockney's Works

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Famous Quote by  David Hockney

Oil on sixty canvases,  overall 207 x 744.2 cm, 1998

A Bigger Grand Canyon

Hockney's Works

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

Famous Quote by  David Hockney

Offset lithograph, 50.2 x 61.6 cm, 1997

The Road to York Through Sledmere

Hockney's Works

Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 193 cm, 2000

Red Pots in The Garden

Hockney's Works

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