David Hockney is an English painter known for his Pop Art style. He became famous for his 1972 painting "Portrait of an artist (pool with two figures)," which sold at auction for $90 million. Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art and moved to California in 1964, where he developed a realistic style using acrylic paint. In the 1990s he returned to England and found inspiration in painting landscapes. While continuing to work primarily with acrylic paint, in 2010-2011 Hockney created 28 iPad drawings for an exhibition, showing his embrace of new digital media.

1. David
Hockney
(1937)

2. Who is
he?
David Hockney is an English painter.
He is known as a POP-ART artist. He
became famous with his painting
‘Portrait of an artist (pool with two
figures)’, made in 1972. This
painting was sold at an auction for
90 million dollars!

3. - Went to Bradford School of Art;
- Moved to Californië in 1964, there he
developed a realistic style. From there on he
just worked with acrylic paint;
- A couple of years later he started integrating
pictures in his paintings and made some sort of
cubist collages;
- In the nineties he returned to England , the
characterisitic landscapes were his new
inspiration ;
- In 2010-2011 he created 28 images for an
exhibition, but what’s special is that all of these
drawings were made with his
Ipad.
His

4. Ipad
“I just happen to be an artist who uses the iPad, I’m not an
iPad artist. It’s just a medium. But I am aware of the
revolutionary aspects of it, and it’s implications.”

5. Chara
chteri
stics
- Themes of his paintings are pools, potraits and landscapes;
- Works with acrylic paint;
- Preoccupation with light;
- Pop-Art;
- Modernism;
- Frank mundane (openhartig alledaags).