David Hockney

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David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937), is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.

He has owned two residences in California, one in Beverly Hills, one in Malibu, and the most expensive work by a living artist was sold at auction on November 15, 2018.

This was the highest figure ever set by Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange)'s auction in 2013 for $58.4 million.

Hockney maintained his position until Jeff Koons regained the award after his Rabbit sold for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York on May 15th.

Early life and education

David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney, a conscient objector in the Second World War, and the fourth of five children. He studied at Bradford Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art (where his teachers included Frank Lisle and his classmates), and the Royal College of Art in London (where he met R. B. Kitaj). Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work while working there.

Hockney was included in the exhibition Young Contemporaries, which also Peter Blake, that announced the appearance of British Pop art at the Royal College of Art. He was involved with the movement, but his early works exhibit expressionist elements, similar to Francis Bacon's. Hockney started Life Painting for a Diploma in 1962, when the RCA said that if he did not finish an assignment of a life drawing of a live model in 1962, it would not let him graduate. He had refused to write an essay for the final examination, arguing that his talents should be solely assessed. Recognizing his ability and growing fame, the RCA modified its policies and awarded the diploma. He taught at Maidstone College of Art for a short time after leaving the Royal Academy. In 1964, he taught at the University of Iowa. In 1965, Hockney began teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Then lived at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1966-1967, before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

Personal life

When studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Hockney came out as gay at the age of 23. In the Sexual Offences Act 1967, the United Kingdom criminalized homosexuality seven years later. In his art, Hockney has investigated the nature of gay love, including the painting We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), which was named after a Walt Whitman poem. In 1963, he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one man showering while the other washes his back. When teaching at UCLA in the summer of 1966, he met Peter Schlesinger, an art student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became romantically involved. Gregory Evans, another of Hockney's romantic partners, was the object of his book; the two met in 1971 and began a friendship in 1974. Although no longer intimate, they do still work together, with Evans as the director of the David Hockney Studio. Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, the former Hockney companion, is now a longtime collaborator. JP is also known as JP, and he also works with Hockney in his studio as his chief assistant.

Dominic Elliott, Hockney's 23-year-old assistant, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington studio on the morning of 18 March 2013; he had also consumed alcohol and taken cocaine, ecstasy, and temazepam. Elliott was a first- and second-team member for Bridlington Rugby Club. According to Hockney's partner, Elliott drove Elliott Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital, where he later died. A verdict of death by misadventure was rendered, but Hockney was never implicated. In November 2015, Hockney sold his house in Bridlington, a five-bedroom former guest house, breaking all his town ties.

He has obtained a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which allows him to purchase cannabis for medical use. Since 1979, he has been using hearing aids, but he didn't know he was going to die a long time before that. He stayed fit by spending half an hour in the swimming pool each morning, and he could handle for six hours at the easel.

Hockney has synaesthetic associations with sound, color, and shape.

Public life

Hockney, like his father, was a conscient objector who served in hospitals during his National Service, 1957-1959.

In 1979, Hockney founded the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He serves on the advisory board of the political magazine Standpoint and contributed original sketches for the launch of the publication in June 2008, as well as deciding to allow Standpoint to publish his previous opinions and photographs throughout the years.

He is a ardent pro-tobacco activist, and he was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio's Today show on December 29, 2009, where he aired his views on the topic.

Jeremy Hunt, a tenacious artist who signed an open letter in October 2010 protesting art cutbacks.

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Career

In 1964, Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to create a series of paintings of swimming ponds in the relatively new acrylic medium, using vibrant colours. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he bounced back and forth between Los Angeles, London, and Paris. He started a decade-long personal friendship with Gregory Evans in 1974 and is now a business partner in 2019. He rented a house in the Hollywood Hills in 1978 and then extended it to include his studio. He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house in Malibu, which he purchased in 1999 for around $1.5 million.

In the 1990s, Hockney returned to Yorkshire more often, usually every three months, to visit his mother, who died in 1999. He stayed for more than two weeks before his buddy Jonathan Silver, who was terminally ill, encouraged him to explore the local areas. He began painting based on memory, some from his boyhood. He completed the painting of Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landmark, in 1998. Hockney returned to Yorkshire for longer and longer stayed, and by 2003, he was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolours. In Bridlington, about 75 miles (121 km) from where he was born, he established a residence and studio in a converted bed and breakfast. His oil paintings, which were created after 2005, were inspired by his extensive studies in watercolour, culminating in a series titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire (2003–2004). He made paintings out of several smaller canvases, from two to five, which were laid together. He used digital photographic reproductions to catalog the day's work to aid him in visualizing it.

During the global COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2019, Hockney stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy.

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