DAVID HOCKNEY

One of Britain’s most eminent contemporary artists, David Hockney, now 71, has enjoyed a long, lustruous and often lascivious career.Hockney became an influential member of Britain’s pop art movement in the late fifties and early sixties and appeared to be part of an emerging generation of young radicals. In the summer of 1961 he travelled to America, where he met Andy Warhol and Dennis Hopper and was drawn into the lively gay scene. He eventually settled in Santa Monica, California. His work became more naturalistic and less "modern".He is now based back in the UK in East Yorkshire and, in the past few years, has turned his attention to oil landscapes.

Times
Dec 16 2008