David Hockney
The Artist
David Hockney has always denied being a pop artist but is included under this heading because this is how the public perceives him. He was born in Bradford in 1937. By the time he won a scholarship to Bradford Grammar School at the age of eleven he had already decided that he wanted to be an artist. He drew for the school magazine and produced posters for the school debating society as a substitute for homework. At sixteen he managed to persuade his parents to let him go to a local art school and that was followed by two years of working in hospitals as an alternative to National Service, as he had registered as a conscientious objector. After this he went to the Royal College Of Art in London to continue his studies, arriving there in 1959.

Hockney duly tried his hand at abstraction, but found it too barren. He was at this moment in a phrase of rapid self-discovery searching for a style. Sine figure painting seemed ‘anti-modern' Hockney began by......

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