David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London.
An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.
Hockney was born in Bradford, England on 9 July 1937 to Laura and Kenneth Hockney and was educated first at Wellington Primary School, then Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj. While he was there Hockney said he felt at home, he took pride and success in his work here. While a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries – alongside Peter Blake – that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works also display expressionist elements, not dissimilar to certain works by Francis Bacon. Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, these works make reference to his love for men. From 1963, Hockney was represented by the art dealer John Kasmin. In 1963 Hockney visited New York, making contact with Andy Warhol. A subsequent visit to California, where he lived for many years, inspired Hockney to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles, using the comparatively new acrylic medium and rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours. In 1967, his painting, Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
David Hockney: 'When I paint, I feel I'm 30'
Visiting with Huell Howser: David Hockney
BBC David Hockneys Secret Knowledge 1of2 DivX MP3 MVGForum
David Hockney: Photoshop is boring
David Hockney Joiners
David Hockney - El conocimiento secreto
David Hockney at the Royal Academy, London
David Hockney, The Lost Secrets of the Old Masters: camera lucida obscura
David Hockney - Pleasures of the eye (part 1/6)
David Hockney explaining perspective
David Hockney
Love Life: David Hockney's Timescapes presented by Lawrence Weschler
David Hockney's Pearblossom Hwy
David Hockney on Photographs - The South Bank Show on Sky Arts HD
Plot
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking and pill popping, and his satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less?
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, agony, alcohol, american-flag, amorality, applause, arrest, art, art-studio
Study for a portrait of Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon: Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
David Hockney: 'When I paint, I feel I'm 30'
Visiting with Huell Howser: David Hockney
BBC David Hockneys Secret Knowledge 1of2 DivX MP3 MVGForum
David Hockney: Photoshop is boring
David Hockney Joiners
David Hockney - El conocimiento secreto
David Hockney at the Royal Academy, London
David Hockney, The Lost Secrets of the Old Masters: camera lucida obscura
David Hockney - Pleasures of the eye (part 1/6)
David Hockney explaining perspective
David Hockney
Love Life: David Hockney's Timescapes presented by Lawrence Weschler
David Hockney's Pearblossom Hwy
David Hockney on Photographs - The South Bank Show on Sky Arts HD
Inside New York's Art World: David Hockney, 1982
David Hockney Lectured at CAFA Art Museum
David Hockney - full Channel 4 News interview
David Hockney interview, 1966 wearing ZOOM glasses
Who Gets to Call it Art - David Hockney
The Forger's Masterclass - Ep. 05 - David Hockney
David Hockney's Art
TateShots: David Hockney Answers Your Questions
David Hockney on What's Unphotographable
Bryan Appleyard Interviews David Hockney 1
Bryan Appleyard Interviews David Hockney 2
David Hockney Interview BBC Radio Sep 2011
David Hockney Interview
Interview: David Hockney
David Hockney's Pearblossom Highway Interview
LACMA Art+Film Gala 2013 Honoring Martin Scorsese and David Hockney - Interviews
Interview with David Hockney, 1967
David Hockney's pixelated process in Studio Q
Louisiana Talks: David Hockney
DON BACHARDY ON ANDY WARHOL AND DAVID HOCKNEY
Robert Hughes interviews David Hockney
David Hockney interview,Royal Academy of Arts
Short version: David Hockney, The Lost Secrets of the Old Masters: camera lucida obscura
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