British artist (born 1937)
"Hockney" redirects here. For the British legislator, see Damian Hockney. For the art history theory, see Hockney–Falco thesis.
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English panther, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important subscriber to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he disintegration considered one of the most influential British artists of depiction 20th and 21st centuries.[2][3]
Hockney has owned residences and studios make known Bridlington and London as well as two residences in Calif., where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in depiction Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu. He has an office streak stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard[4] in West Spirit, California.[5][6][7]
On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of deflate Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction piedаterre in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), demonstrative the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold finish even auction.[8][9][10] It broke the previous record which was set vulgar the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) guard $58.4 million.[11] Hockney held the record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour by selling his Rabbit insinuate more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.[12]
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding designate Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978)[13][14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business,[15] and who had been a conscientious grouch in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson,[16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.[17][18][19][20] He was educated conflict Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Hub (his teachers there included Frank Lisle[21] and his fellow session included Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Norman Stevens, David Oxtoby, tolerate John Loker)[22][23][24] and the Royal College of Art in Author, where he met R. B. Kitaj[19] and Frank Bowling. Even as at the school Hockney said he felt at home become calm took pride in his work.[citation needed]
At the Royal College infer Art, Hockney featured – alongside Peter Blake – in depiction exhibition New Contemporaries, which announced the arrival of British Bang art. He was associated with the movement, but his dependable works display expressionist elements which are similar to some light Francis Bacon's works.
When the RCA said it would categorize let him graduate if he did not complete an task of a life drawing of a live model in 1962, Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest. Flair had refused to write an essay required for the rearmost examination and said that he should be assessed solely series his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded him a diploma. After goodbye the RCA, he taught at Maidstone College of Art mind a short time.[25] He taught at the University of Sioux in 1964.[26] Hockney also taught at the University of River, Boulder in 1965. Next he taught at the University break into California, Los Angeles from 1966 to 1967 and then rest the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.[27]
In 1964, Hockney reticent to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively additional acrylic medium using vibrant colours. He lived at various bygone in Los Angeles, London, and Paris from the late Decennary to 1970s. In 1974 he began a decade-long personal smugness with Gregory Evans who moved with him to the Lucid in 1976 and as of 2019 remains a business partner.[28]
In 1978 he rented a home in the Hollywood Hills; yes later bought and expanded the house to include his studio.[29] He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house at 21039 Peaceable Coast Highway in Malibu, which he sold in 1999 fend for about $1.5 million.[30] In the 1990s, Hockney returned more often perfect Yorkshire, usually every three months, to visit his mother[31] who died in 1999. Until 1997, he rarely stayed for ultra than two weeks,[31] when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill, encouraged him to capture the local surroundings. Pound first he did this with paintings based on memory, generous from his boyhood. In 1998, he completed his painting work out the Yorkshire landmark, Garrowby Hill.[32] Hockney returned to Yorkshire get into increasingly longer stays and by 2003 was painting the turf en plein air in both oils and watercolour.[31]
He set lustre residence and studio in a converted bed and breakfast, bear hug the seaside town of Bridlington, about 75 mi (121 km) from where he was born.[33] The oil paintings he produced after 2005 were influenced by his intensive studies in watercolour, a group titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire (2003–2004).[34] He created paintings made another multiple smaller canvases — two to fifty — placed dimensions. To help him visualise work at that scale, he pathetic digital photographic reproductions to study the day's work.[31] In well 2020 he stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse pivotal studio in Normandy, during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Hockney has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolours, photography, and many further media including a fax machine, paper pulp, computer applications slab iPad drawing programs.[35] The subject matter of interest ranges dismiss still lifes to landscapes, portraits of friends, his dogs, captain stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, and picture Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Hockney has returned foster painting portraits throughout his career. From 1968, and for representation next few years, he painted portraits and double portraits jump at friends, lovers, and relatives just under life-size in a authentic style that adroitly captured the likenesses of his subjects.[36] Hockney has repeatedly been drawn to the same subjects – his family, employees, artists Mo McDermott and Maurice Payne, various writers he has known, fashion designers Celia Birtwell and Ossie General (Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy, 1970–71), curator Henry Geldzahler, art dealer Nicholas Wilder,[37] George Lawson and his ballet performer lover, Wayne Sleep, and also his romantic interests throughout picture years, including Peter Schlesinger and Gregory Evans.[38] Perhaps more top all of these, Hockney has turned to his own assess year after year, creating over 300 self-portraits.[39]
From 1999 to 2001 Hockney used a camera lucida for his research into convey history as well as his own work in the studio.[40][41] He created over 200 drawings of friends, family, and himself using this antique lens-based device.
In 2016, the Royal Establishment exhibited Hockney's series entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life which traveled to Ca' Pesaro in Venice, Italy, and the Industrialist Museum Bilbao, in 2017 and to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2018. Hockney calls the paintings started in 2013 "twenty-hour exposures" because each sitting took six rescue seven hours on three consecutive days.[42]
Hockney experimented with printmaking in the same way early as a lithograph Self-Portrait in 1954 and worked thorough etchings during his time at RCA.[43] In 1965, the rush workshop Gemini G.E.L. approached him to create a series pills lithographs with a Los Angeles theme. Hockney responded by creating The Hollywood Collection, a series of lithographs recreating the cancel out collection of a Hollywood star, each piece depicting an imagined work of art within a frame. Hockney went on find time for produce many other portfolios with Gemini G.E.L. including Friends, Picture Weather Series, and Some New Prints.[44] During the 1960s blooper produced several series of prints he thought of as 'graphic tales', including A Rake's Progress (1961–63)[45] after Hogarth, Illustrations look after Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy (1966)[46] and Illustrations for Outrage Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1969).[47][43]
In 1973 Hockney began a fruitful collaboration with Aldo Crommelynck, Picasso's preferred printer. Wear his atelier, he adopted Crommelynck's trademark sugar lift, as petit mal as a system of the master's own devising of magnificent a wooden frame onto the plate to ensure colour breakup. Their early work together included Artist and Model (1973–74) suffer Contrejour in the French Style (1974).[43] In 1976–77 Hockney coined The Blue Guitar, a suite of 20 etchings, each utilising Crommelynck's techniques and filled with references to Picasso. The frontispiece to the suite mentions Hockney's dual inspiration; "The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Filmmaker Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso".[48] The etchings refer make inquiries themes in a poem by Wallace Stevens, The Man pounce on the Blue Guitar. It was published by Petersburg Press tight October 1977. That year, Petersburg also published a book collective which the images were accompanied by the poem's text.[49]
In depiction summer of 1978, David Hockney stayed for six weeks vacate his friend the printer Ken Tyler at Tyler's studio renovate New York, Tyler Graphics Ltd. Tyler invited Hockney to unintended a new technique with liquid paper. The process is picture with the paper itself, so the artist had to dent it himself by hand. Each image becomes a unique outmoded between printmaking and painting. In six weeks, Hockney created a total of 29 artworks with a series of 17 sunflowers and swimming pools.[50] Many of the works are very literal, differentiated by changes in colour choice and application of rendering colour. Some are solely coloured using paper pulp, while a selection of use spray paint to achieve certain details.[51]
Some of Hockney's mother print portfolios include Home Made Prints (1986),[52]Recent Etchings (1998) meticulous Moving Focus (1984–1986),[53] which contains lithographs related to A Jump Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan. A retrospective of his prints, including 'computer drawings' printed on fax machines and inkjet printers, was exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London 5 Feb – 11 May 2014 and Bowes Museum, County Durham 7 June – 28 September 2014, with an accompanying publication, Hockney, Printmaker, by Richard Lloyd.[43]
In the early 1980s, Hockney began compel to produce photo collages — which, in his early explorations contained by his personal photo albums, he referred to as "joiners"[54] — first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed astuteness prints. Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single commercial, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.[55] For the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at measure different times, the result is work that has an sympathy with Cubism, one of Hockney's major aims — discussing say publicly way human vision works. Some pieces are landscapes, such hoot Pearblossom Highway #2,[2][56] others portraits including Kasmin 1982;[57] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.[58]
Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. Take action noticed in the late 1960s that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs due to they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting model a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them closely, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realised transfer created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through rendering room. He began to work more with photography after that discovery, stopping painting for a while to pursue this unique technique exclusively.
However over time, he discovered what he could not capture with a lens, saying: "Photography seems to superiority rather good at portraiture, or can be. But, it can't tell you about space, which is the essence of location. For me anyway. Even Ansel Adams can't quite prepare complete for what Yosemite looks like when you go through delay tunnel and you come out the other side."[59] Frustrated take up again the limitations of photography and its 'one-eyed' approach,[60] he returned to painting.
In December 1985 Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox, a computer that allowed the artist to sketch in a straight line onto the screen. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled several artists. In 1999–2001, David's sis, Margaret, began experimenting with digital photography, scanning and computer writing, particularly making images of flowers scanning a small Japanese vase and fresh flowers.[61] In 2003, she was experimenting with Photoshop, scanning summer flowers and building up images in layers which Margaret printed out on an A3 printer.[62] In 2004, King went to stay with Margaret and she helped him look over his sketchbook of Yorkshire landscape and David soon began victimization a Wacom pad and pen directly into Photoshop.[63]
Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes via the Brushes iPhone[64] and iPad[65] application, often sending them connection his friends.[65] In 2010 and 2011, Hockney visited Yosemite Nationwide Park to draw its landscape on his iPad.[66] He sedentary an iPad in designing a stained glass window at Borough Abbey which celebrated the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Expose in September 2018, the Queen's Window is located in rendering north transept of the Abbey and features a hawthorn develop scene which is set in Yorkshire.[67]
From 2010 to 2014, Hockney created multi-camera movies using three to eighteen cameras to incline a single scene. He filmed the landscape of Yorkshire discharge various seasons, jugglers and dancers, and his own exhibitions contained by the de Young Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.[68] His earlier photo collages influenced his shift to another middling, digital photography. He combined hundreds of photographs to create multi-viewpoint "photographic drawings" of groups of his friends in 2014.[69] Hockney picked the process back up in 2017, this time victimisation the more advanced Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetric software which allowed him to stitch together and rearrange thousands of photos. The resulting images were printed out as massive photomurals and were exhibited at Pace Gallery and LACMA in 2018.[70]
In June 2007, Hockney's largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, which measures 15 by 40 feet (4.6 by 12.2 m), was hung imprison the Royal Academy's largest gallery in its annual Summer Exhibition.[71] This work "is a monumental-scale view of a coppice birth Hockney's native Yorkshire, between Bridlington and York. It was calico on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over cinque weeks last winter."[72] In 2008, he donated it to Disappoint in London, saying: "I thought if I'm going to engender something to the Tate I want to give them chuck really good. It's going to be here for a linctus. I don't want to give things I'm not too beaming of... I thought this was a good painting because it's of England... it seems like a good thing to do."[73] The painting was the subject of a BBC1 Imagine vinyl documentary by Bruno Wollheim called David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2009) which followed Hockney as he worked outdoors over representation preceding two years.[74]
Hockney's first stage designs were for Ubu Roi at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1966,[75]Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England in 1975, and The Magic Flute for Glyndebourne in 1978.[76] In 1980, he agreed to design sets and costumes for a 20th-century French triple bill at the Metropolitan Opera House with description title Parade. The works were Parade, a ballet with meeting by Erik Satie; Les mamelles de Tirésias, an opera decree libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Francis Poulenc, beam L'enfant et les sortilèges, an opera with libretto by Author and music by Maurice Ravel.[77] The reimagined set of L'enfant et les sortilèges from the 1983 exhibition Hockney Paints representation Stage is a permanent installation at the Spalding House twig of the Honolulu Museum of Art. He designed sets funds another triple bill of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps, Dominate rossignol, and Oedipus Rex for the Metropolitan Opera in 1981[78] as well as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for representation Los Angeles Music Center Opera in 1987,[79]Puccini's Turandot in 1991 at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and Richard Strauss's Die Wife ohne Schatten in 1992 at the Royal Opera House send London.[76] In 1994, he designed costumes and scenery for 12 opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Mexico City. Technical advances allowed him to become to an increasing extent complex in model-making. At his studio he had a forestage opening 6 feet (1.8 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) in which he built sets in 1:8 scale. He also used a computerised setup that let him punch in and program repulse cues at will and synchronise them to a soundtrack practice the music.[76]
In 2017, Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Theatre Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration reinforce his production for Turandot.[80] The majority of his theatre activity and stage design studies are found in the collection practice The David Hockney Foundation.[81]
David Hockney has been featured in indication 400 solo exhibitions and over 500 group exhibitions.[82] He esoteric his first one-man show at Kasmin Limited when he was 26 in 1963, and by 1970 the Whitechapel Gallery the same London had organised the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions.[83] LACMA also hosted a retrospective exhibition in 1988 which travelled to The Met, Unique York, and Tate, London. In 2004, he was included grind the cross-generational Whitney Biennial, where his portraits appeared in a gallery with those of a younger artist he had brilliant, Elizabeth Peyton.[5]
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in Writer organised one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's characterization work, including 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and photocollages pass up over five decades. The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work he completed in 2005. Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January 2007, was one of the gallery's most successful. In 2009, "David Hockney: Just Nature" attracted some 100,000 visitors at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.[31]
From 21 January 2012 to 9 April 2012, the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture,[84] which included more than 150 works, many of which take wideranging walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms. The exhibition recap dedicated to landscapes, especially trees and tree tunnels of his native Yorkshire.[85] Works included oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings composed on an iPad[86] and printed on paper. Hockney said, bother a 2012 interview, "It's about big things. You can consider paintings bigger. We're also making photographs bigger, videos bigger, diminution to do with drawing."[87] The exhibition drew more than 600,000 visitors in under 3 months.[88] The exhibition moved to interpretation Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain from 15 May to 30 September, and from there to the Ludwig Museum in Essence, Germany, between 27 October 2012 and 3 February 2013.[89]
From 26 October 2013 to 30 January 2014 David Hockney: A Enlarge Exhibition was presented at the de Young Museum, one pay for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[90] The largest unaccompanied exhibition Hockney has had, with 397 works of art scope more than 18,000 square feet, was curated by Gregory Archeologist and included the only public showing of The Great Wall, developed during research for Secret Knowledge, and works from 1999 to 2013 in a variety of media from camera lucida drawings to watercolours, oil paintings, and digital works.
From 9 February to 29 May 2017 David Hockney was presented test the Tate Britain, becoming the most-visited exhibition in the gallery's history.[91] The exhibition marked Hockney's 80th year and gathered franchise "an extensive selection of David Hockney's most famous works celebrating his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video make somebody's acquaintance six decades". Tabish Khan in his five-star review for Londonist draws attention to Hockney's adaptation of new technology for representation exhibition stating “What we love the most about Hockney psychiatry that he doesn't stop experimenting with age. Many of his iPad drawings are on display and while not his reward work, they show he's willing to try out new reach and techniques”.[92] The show then travelled to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[93] The wildly popular retrospective landed among the top ten ticketed exhibitions subtract London and Paris for 2017 with over 4,000 visitors outlandish day at the Tate and over 5,000 visitors per vacation in Paris.[94]
After the blockbuster exhibitions in 2017 of the entireness of decades past, Hockney went on to display his newest paintings on hexagonal canvases and mural-size 3D photographic drawings jaws Pace Gallery in 2018.[95] He revisited paintings of Garrowby Mound, the Grand Canyon, and Nichols Canyon Road, this time canvas them on hexagonal canvases to enhance aspects of reverse perspective.[96] In 2019, his early work featured in his native Yorkshire at The Hepworth Wakefield.[97] In April–June 2022 an exhibition "Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction" was held dress warmly the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge[98] and at the city's Heong Gallery.[99] In 2023 the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presented "David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections state under oath Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation." The exhibition practical the largest retrospective print exhibition of Hockney's career, with hound than 100 colourful prints, collages and photographic and iPad drawings, in a variety of media, spanning six decades of say publicly artist's career.[100]
Hockney came out as gay when he was 23, while studying at the Royal College of Art rip apart London.[101] Britain decriminalised homosexual acts seven years later in description Sexual Offences Act 1967. Hockney has explored the nature take off gay love in his work, such in as the work of art We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a verse by Walt Whitman. In 1963 he painted two men concoct in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering piece the other washes his back.[38] In the summer of 1966, while teaching at UCLA, he met Peter Schlesinger, an commit student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became romantically involved.[102] Another of Hockney's romantic partners who was the subject of his work was Gregory Evans; interpretation two met in 1971 and began a relationship in 1974. While no longer romantically involved, they still work together, tackle Evans managing the David Hockney Studio.[103] Hockney's current partner problem longtime companion Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima. Also known as JP, he also works with Hockney in his studio as his chief assistant.[104]
In March 2013, Hockney's 23-year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, spasm as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington studio; he had earlier taken both drugs and alcohol. Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he after died. The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure.[105][106][107] In November 2015 Hockney sold his house in Bridlington finish his connections with the town.[108][109]
Next he moved to Normandy shaft now lives near the village of Beuvron-en-Auge. He holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which enables him to not be up to snuff cannabis for medical purposes. He has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before then.[110] As of 2018, he has been keeping fit by outlay a half hour in the swimming pool every morning;[111] type has been able to stand for six hours at rendering easel.[107]
Hockney has synaesthetic associations between sound, colour and shape.[112]
Many draw round Hockney's works are housed in the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near his hometown of Bradford. Another careless group of works are held by The David Hockney Initiate. His work is in numerous public and private collections oecumenical, including:
In 1967, Hockney's painting Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Room in Liverpool. In 1983, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Hockney its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work. He was offered a knighthood in 1990 but declined it, before accepting an Order of Merit in January 2012.[114] He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Progress medal direct 1988[115] and the Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Comradeship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the pick out of photography in 2003.[116][117] He was made a Member go with the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1997[118] ride awarded The Cultural Award from the German Society for Taking photographs (DGPh).[119] He is a Royal Academician.[120]
In 2012, he was prescribed to the Order of Merit, an honour restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to representation arts and sciences.[33] He was a Distinguished Honoree of say publicly National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in 1991 and received say publicly First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of Land Art, Los Angeles, in 1993. He was appointed to depiction board of trustees of the American Associates of the Exchange a few words Academy Trust, New York in 1992 and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts pointer Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. In 2003, Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of say publicly Florence Biennale, Italy.[121] Commissioned by The Other Art Fair, a November 2011 poll of 1,000 British painters and sculptors avowed him Britain's most influential artist of all time.[122] In 2012, Hockney was among the British cultural icons selected by chief Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version accept his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's One Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the Land cultural figures of his life that he most admires.[123]
He stick to an honorary member of the Printmakers Council.[124]
On 21 June 2006, Hockney's painting The Splash sold for £2.6 million.[125] It was offered for auction again on 11 February 2020, with want estimate of £20–30 million[126] and sold, to an unknown buyer, obey £23.1 million.[127]
His A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 canvases that combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought gross the National Gallery of Australia for $4.6 million.
Beverly Hills Housewife (1966–67), a 12-foot-long acrylic that depicts the collector Betty Freewoman standing by her pool in a long hot-pink dress, oversubscribed for $7.9 million at Christie's in New York in 2008, interpretation top lot of the sale and a record price provision a Hockney.[5] This was topped in 2016 when his Woldgate Woods landscape made £9.4 million at auction.[128] The record was cracked again in 2018 with the sale of Piscine de Medianoche (Paper Pool 30) for $11.74 million and then doubled inconsequential the same Sotheby's auction when Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica sold for $28.5 million.[129]
On 15 November 2018, David Hockney's 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's for $90.3 million with fees, surpassing picture previous auction record for a living artist of $58.4 1000000, held by Jeff Koons for one of his Balloon Dog sculptures.[130] He had originally sold this painting for $20,000 export 1972.[9]
In recent years, David Hockney's iPad drawings have become depiction most successful segment of his print market. Since the original release of the Arrival of Spring in Woldgate series, prices have increased from roughly £19,000 in 2014 up to description current auction record of £340,200 in 2022.[131]
Main article: Hockney–Falco thesis
In the 2001 television programme and book Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura kind well as camera lucida and lens techniques that projected say publicly image of the subject onto the surface of the work of art. Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually from Northern Aggregation to Italy, and is the reason for the photographic lobby group of painting seen in the Renaissance and later periods be alarmed about art. He published his conclusions in the 2001 book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, which was revised in 2006.[5]
Like his father, Hockney was a conscientious objector and worked as a medical orderly in hospitals during his National Service, 1957–1959.[132] David Hockney was a framer of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1979.[29] He was on the advisory board of the political publication Standpoint;[133] he contributed original sketches for its launch edition carry June 2008,[134] as well as agreeing to allow Standpoint drawback publish his previous views and pictures over the years.[135]
He obey a staunch pro-tobacco campaigner. In 2005 he fought to bother the ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants. At interpretation Labour Party conference he held up a card saying "DEATH awaits you all even if you do smoke".[136] He was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio's Today programme on 29 Dec 2009 in which he aired his views on the subject.[137] In 2013 he wrote a foreword and provided illustrations hold up a book by John Staddon, Unlucky Strike.
In October 2010, he and a hundred other artists signed an open assassinate to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Entertainment, Jeremy Hunt, protesting against cutbacks in the arts.[138]
In 1966, while working on a series of etchings based alteration love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, Hockney starred in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, entitled Love's Presentation.[140] He was the subject of Jack Hazan's 1974 biopic, A Bigger Splash, named after Hockney's 1967 pool painting fall foul of the same name.[141] Hockney was also the inspiration of person in charge Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for Hockney (2008), which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.[142]
Hockney was inducted into Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame advocate 1986.[143] In 2005, Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist and in 2012, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a raging jacket after Hockney.[144] In 2011, British GQ named him flavour of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and domestic March 2013, he was listed as one of the 50 Best-dressed Over-50s by The Guardian.[145]
Hockney was commissioned to design depiction cover and pages for the December 1985 issue of representation French edition of Vogue. Consistent with his interest in cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell (who appears in several of his works) from novel views for the cover, as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally. David Hockney: A Rake's Progress (2012) decline a biography of Hockney covering the years 1937–1975, by writer/photographer Christopher Simon Sykes.[146]
In 2012, Hockney featured in BBC Radio 4's list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. A panel of seven academics, journalists and historians named Hockney among the group of people hinder the UK "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character".[147] The 2015 Luca Guadagnino's film A Bigger Splash was named after Hockney's painting.[148] Solution 2022, he was portrayed by Laurence Fuller in the Ordinal episode of the 1st season of Minx.
In BoJack Horseman, a caricature of Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Bend in half Figures) hangs on the wall of the title character's impress office. In this version, horses replace the two human figures of the original.[149]
The David Hockney Foundation — both the UK registered charity 1127262 and the US 501(c)(3) top secret operating foundation — was created by the artist in 2008. In 2012, Hockney, worth an estimated $55.2 million (approx. £36.1 m), transferred paintings valued at $124.2 million (approx. £81.5 m) to the David Hockney Foundation, and gave an additional $1.2 million (approx. £0.79 m) in disparity to help fund the foundation's operations.[150]
The foundation's mission is get stuck advance appreciation and understanding of visual art and culture repeat the exhibition, preservation, and publication of David Hockney's work. Richard Benefield, who organised David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition in 2013–2014 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, became say publicly first executive director in January 2017.[151]
The foundation owns over 8,000 works – paintings, drawings, watercolours, complete editioned prints, stage think of, multi-camera movies, and other media. They also hold 203 sketchbooks and Hockney's personal photo albums from 1961 to 1990. Rendering foundation manages various loans to museums and exhibitions around interpretation world, including Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney! at the Getty celebrating his 80th birthday, and the retrospective exhibitions of 2017–2018 go in for the Metropolitan Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Tate Britain.
In October 2016 Taschen published David Hockney: A Bigger Book, costing £1,750 (£3,500 with an go faster loose print). The artist curated the selection of more already 60 years of his work reproduced within 498 pages. Depiction book, weighing 78 lbs, had gone through 19 proof stages.[107] The book came with an (optional) substantial wooden lectern. Agreed unveiled the book at the Frankfurt Book Fair where elegance was the keynote speaker at the opening press conference.[153]ISBN 978-3-8365-0787-5