David Hockney, British Pop Art pioneer, passes away in London
Key takeaways
- Tributes began to emerge within minutes of the announcement.
- “His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless,” art historian Richard Morris said on X.
- “He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88, his publicist announced Friday.
One of the leading artists involved in the Pop art movement in the 1960s, Hockney established himself as a globally renowned painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting right up until his death.
Lauding him as “one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries”, his publicist Erica Bolton said he died “peacefully at home” in London on Thursday, a month before his 89th birthday.