76 Facts About David Hockney

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

David Hockney held this record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.

David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney, a conscientious objector in the Second World War, the fourth of five children.

David Hockney was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements, similar to some works by Francis Bacon.

David Hockney had refused to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be assessed solely on his artworks.

David Hockney taught at the University of Iowa in 1964.

David Hockney taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1965.

David Hockney then taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1966 to 1967, followed by the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

In 1964, David Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium using vibrant colours.

David Hockney lived back and forth among Los Angeles, London, and Paris in the late 1960s to 1970s.

David Hockney did this at first with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood.

David Hockney returned to Yorkshire for increasingly longer stays, and by 2003 was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolour.

In spring 2020 David Hockney stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy, during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

David Hockney has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolours, photography, and many other media including a fax machine, paper pulp, computer applications and iPad drawing programs.

From 1999 to 2001 David Hockney used a camera lucida for his research into art history as well as his own work in the studio.

David Hockney created over 200 drawings of friends, family, and himself using this antique lens-based device.

In 2016, the Royal Academy exhibited David Hockney's series entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life which traveled to Ca' Pesaro in Venice, Italy, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2017 and to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2018.

David Hockney calls the paintings started in 2013 "twenty-hour exposures" because each sitting took six to seven hours on three consecutive days.

David Hockney experimented with printmaking as early as a lithograph Self-Portrait in 1954 and worked in etchings during his time at RCA.

David Hockney responded by creating The Hollywood Collection, a series of lithographs recreating the art collection of a Hollywood star, each piece depicting an imagined work of art within a frame.

In 1973 David Hockney began a fruitful collaboration with Aldo Crommelynck, Picasso's preferred printer.

The frontispiece to the suite mentions Hockney's dual inspiration; "The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso".

Tyler invited David Hockney to try a new technique with liquid paper.

In six weeks, David Hockney created a total of 29 artworks with a series of 17 sunflowers and swimming pools.

David Hockney noticed in the late 1960s that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses.

David Hockney did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted.

David Hockney began to work more with photography after this discovery, stopping painting for a while to pursue this new technique exclusively.

In December 1985 David Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen.

In 2004, David Hockney went to stay with Margaret and she helped him scan his sketchbook of Yorkshire landscape and David Hockney soon began using a Wacom pad and pen directly into Photoshop.

Since 2009, David Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone and iPad application, often sending them to his friends.

In 2010 and 2011, David Hockney visited Yosemite National Park to draw its landscape on his iPad.

David Hockney used an iPad in designing a stained glass window at Westminster Abbey which celebrated the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

From 2010 to 2014, David Hockney created multi-camera movies using three to eighteen cameras to record a single scene.

David Hockney filmed the landscape of Yorkshire in various seasons, jugglers and dancers, and his own exhibitions within the de Young Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.

David Hockney combined hundreds of photographs to create multi-viewpoint "photographic drawings" of groups of his friends in 2014.

David Hockney picked the process back up in 2017, this time using the more advanced Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetric software which allowed him to stitch together and rearrange thousands of photos.

The reimagined set of L'enfant et les sortileges from the 1983 exhibition David Hockney Paints the Stage is a permanent installation at the Spalding House branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

David Hockney designed sets for another triple bill of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps, Le rossignol, and Oedipus Rex for the Metropolitan Opera in 1981 as well as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in 1987, Puccini's Turandot in 1991 at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1992 at the Royal Opera House in London.

David Hockney used a computerised setup that let him punch in and program lighting cues at will and synchronise them to a soundtrack of the music.

In 2017, David Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration of his production for Turandot.

David Hockney has been featured in over 400 solo exhibitions and over 500 group exhibitions.

David Hockney had his first one-man show at Kasmin Limited when he was 26 in 1963, and by 1970 the Whitechapel Gallery in London had organised the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions.

David Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January 2007, was one of the gallery's most successful.

The largest solo exhibition David Hockney has had, with 397 works of art in more than 18,000 square feet, was curated by Gregory Evans and included the only public showing of The Great Wall, developed during research for Secret Knowledge, and works from 1999 to 2013 in a variety of media from camera lucida drawings to watercolours, oil paintings, and digital works.

From 9 February to 29 May 2017 David Hockney was presented at the Tate Britain, becoming the most-visited exhibition in the gallery's history.

David Hockney revisited paintings of Garrowby Hill, the Grand Canyon, and Nichols Canyon Road, this time painting them on hexagonal canvases to enhance aspects of reverse perspective.

David Hockney came out as gay at the age of 23, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London.

David Hockney has explored the nature of gay love in his work, such in as the painting We Two Boys Together Clinging, named after a poem by Walt Whitman.

The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure and David Hockney was never implicated.

David Hockney holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which enables him to buy cannabis for medical purposes.

David Hockney has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before that.

Many of David Hockney's works are housed in the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near his hometown of Bradford.

David Hockney's work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:.

In 1967, David Hockney's painting, Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

David Hockney was offered a knighthood in 1990 but declined, before accepting an Order of Merit in January 2012.

David Hockney was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Progress medal in 1988 and the Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2003.

David Hockney was made a Companion of Honour in 1997 and awarded The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography.

David Hockney was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in 1991 and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles, in 1993.

David Hockney was appointed to the board of trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York in 1992 and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997.

In 2003, David Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy.

David Hockney is an honorary member of the Printmakers Council.

On 15 November 2018, David Hockney's 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist sold at Christie's for $90.3 million with fees, surpassing the previous auction record for a living artist of $58.4 million, held by Jeff Koons for one of his Balloon Dog sculptures.

David Hockney had originally sold this painting for $20,000 in 1972.

David Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually from Northern Europe to Italy, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting we see in the Renaissance and later periods of art.

David Hockney published his conclusions in the 2001 book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, which was revised in 2006.

David Hockney was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1979.

David Hockney serves on the advisory board of the political magazine Standpoint, and contributed original sketches for its launch edition, in June 2008, as well as agreeing to allow Standpoint to publish his previous views and pictures over the years.

David Hockney is a staunch pro-tobacco campaigner and was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio's Today programme on 29 December 2009 in which he aired his views on the subject.

In 1966, while working on a series of etchings based on love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P Cavafy, Hockney starred in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, entitled Love's Presentation.

David Hockney was the subject of Jack Hazan's 1974 biopic, A Bigger Splash, named after Hockney's 1967 pool painting of the same name.

David Hockney was the inspiration of artist Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for David Hockney, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.

David Hockney was inducted into Vanity Fairs International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame in 1986.

David Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and pages for the December 1985 issue of the French edition of Vogue.

Consistent with his interest in cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, David Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell from different views for the cover, as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally.

In 2012, David Hockney featured in BBC Radio 4's list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

David Hockney unveiled the book at the Frankfurt Book Fair where he was the keynote speaker at the opening press conference.