Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. He continues to create and exhibit art, and in 2011 he was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century.
Hockney is an influential artist because he created a whole new style of photography. He got a lot of his inspiration from his favorite places around L.A. In his later years he got back into painting. And once technology came out he started to do paintings on ipads |
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