He lived back and forth among Los Angeles, London, and Paris in the late 1960s to 1970s.
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In 1964, 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 then taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1966 to 1967, followed by the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Hockney also taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1965. He taught at the University of Iowa in 1964. After leaving the RCA, he taught at Maidstone College of Art for a short time. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded the diploma. He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be assessed solely on his artworks. 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 1962, Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements, similar to some works by Francis Bacon. Īt the Royal College of Art, Hockney featured – alongside Peter Blake – in the exhibition New Contemporaries, which announced the arrival of British Pop art. While there, Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work. He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art (where his teachers included Frank Lisle and his fellow students included Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Norman Stevens, David Oxtoby and John Loker ) and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. Early life and education ĭavid Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney, a conscientious objector in the Second World War, the fourth of five children. Hockney held this record until when Koons reclaimed the honour selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.
This broke the previous record, set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington, and London, as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Recorded September 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Rowĭavid Hockney OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.
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