David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88. He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and became best known for paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic.

Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss beneath the city's sun-soaked skies. His six-decade career went far beyond a single era. He produced perspective-shifting portraits using photo-collage, experimented with abstract landscape painting and later investigated the possibilities of creating artworks from emerging 3D technology.

Born in Bradford in 1937 as the fourth of five children, he studied at Bradford College and sold his first painting, a portrait of his father, for £10 at the Yorkshire Artists Exhibition in 1957.

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