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David Hockney💫
#art #davidhockney #popart #mastoart

David Hockney💫
#art #davidhockney #popart #mastoart

The World According to David Hockney Is the Art Book You Need Right Now. https://weandthecolor.com/the-world-according-to-david-hockney-is-the-art-book-you-need-right-now/210432

#davidhockney #book #books #art #artist

The World According to David Hockney Is the Art Book You Need Right Now. https://weandthecolor.com/the-world-according-to-david-hockney-is-the-art-book-you-need-right-now/210432

#davidhockney #book #books #art #artist

David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/21/david-hockney-funeral-private-two-mourners #DavidHockney #ArtAndDesign #Painting #Art #Culture #Exhibitions #UkNews

David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/21/david-hockney-funeral-private-two-mourners #DavidHockney #ArtAndDesign #Painting #Art #Culture #Exhibitions #UkNews

The Top 5 Museum & Gallery Exhibitions to See in London This July

Tabish Khan, the @LondonArtCritic, picks his top exhibitions to see in London this month. If you are looking…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #DavidHockney #DulwichPictureGallery #GlennBrown #GreatBritain #HurvinAnderson #london #LondonArtCritic #Londonexhibitions #SerpentineGalleries #TabishKhan #TateBritain #WildlifePhotographeroftheYear
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1036596/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1036596/ The Top 5 Museum & Gallery Exhibitions to See in London This July #Britain #DavidHockney #DulwichPictureGallery #England #GlennBrown #GreatBritain #HurvinAnderson #london #LondonArtCritic #LondonExhibitions #SerpentineGalleries #TabishKhan #TateBritain #UK #UnitedKingdom #WildlifePhotographerOfTheYear

David Hockney, Beyond the Pool

Eng with subs.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/071420-000-A/david-hockney-beyond-the-pool/

53 min/ Available until 11/09/2026

Arte has plenty of art related content. You might need a vpn from some areas. No ads.

#arte #artist #art #video #painter #documentary #David #Hockney #davidhockney #movie #pools #swimmingpools #アート

David Hockney, Beyond the Pool

Eng with subs.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/071420-000-A/david-hockney-beyond-the-pool/

53 min/ Available until 11/09/2026

Arte has plenty of art related content. You might need a vpn from some areas. No ads.

#arte #artist #art #video #painter #documentary #David #Hockney #davidhockney #movie #pools #swimmingpools #アート

https://www.europesays.com/ch/86078/ Thousands flock to Art Basel in Switzerland as market outlook improves #AndyWarhol #ArtBasel #Basel #DavidHockney #GlobalArt #HenryMoore #MarketSentiment #PabloPicasso #Switzerland

https://www.europesays.com/ch/85938/ Thousands flock to Art Basel in Switzerland as market outlook improves #AndyWarhol #ArtBasel #Basel #DavidHockney #GlobalArt #HenryMoore #MarketSentiment #PabloPicasso #Switzerland

https://www.europesays.com/ch/85930/ Thousands flock to Art Basel in Switzerland as market outlook improves #AndyWarhol #ArtBasel #Basel #DavidHockney #GlobalArt #HenryMoore #MarketSentiment #PabloPicasso #Switzerland

https://www.europesays.com/es/610476/ La soledad de las piscinas de Hockney (un obituario) #ABiggerSplash #arte #ArteContemporáneo #ArteYDiseño #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #CaliforniaEnElArte #ColorYLuz #DavidHockney #Design #Diseño #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #LaTercera #MelancolíaEnElArte #MrAndMrsClarkAndPercy #Obituario #Pintura #PinturaAcrílica #PiscinaConDosFiguras #PiscinasDeHockney #Pop #Spain #YorkshireBradford

David Hockney’s Hidden Depths

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/david-hockneys-hidden-depths

David Hockney’s Hidden Depths

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/david-hockneys-hidden-depths

Morto settimana scorsa. #DavidHockney: maestro della #PopArt - Guarda il documentario completo | ARTE in italiano https://www.arte.tv/it/videos/071420-000-A/david-hockney-maestro-della-pop-art/

@cultura

Morto settimana scorsa. #DavidHockney: maestro della #PopArt - Guarda il documentario completo | ARTE in italiano https://www.arte.tv/it/videos/071420-000-A/david-hockney-maestro-della-pop-art/

@cultura

‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/15/david-hockneys-return-yorkshire-glorious-reawakening #DavidHockney #ArtAndDesign #Culture #UkNews #Painting #Yorkshire #Art

‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/15/david-hockneys-return-yorkshire-glorious-reawakening #DavidHockney #ArtAndDesign #Culture #UkNews #Painting #Yorkshire #Art

Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs: David Hockney’s greatest works – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jun/14/david-hockney-greatest-works-in-pictures-normandy-la-yorkshire #DavidHockney #Painting #Culture #Art #ArtAndDesign

Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs: David Hockney’s greatest works – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jun/14/david-hockney-greatest-works-in-pictures-normandy-la-yorkshire #DavidHockney #Painting #Culture #Art #ArtAndDesign

David Hockney (1937-2026)

:soft_sad:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/12/david-hockney-obituary

#DavidHockney #Art

David Hockney (1937-2026)

:soft_sad:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/12/david-hockney-obituary

#DavidHockney #Art

"Do remember they can't cancel the spring" - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/14/ella-baron-david-hockney-artist-cartoon
#davidhockney #art

"Do remember they can't cancel the spring" - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/14/ella-baron-david-hockney-artist-cartoon
#davidhockney #art

Un des plus grands n’est plus

David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

English version : click here

Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

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Death of a giant

David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

More images in French section

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Un des plus grands n’est plus

David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

English version : click here

Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

Top

Death of a giant

David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

More images in French section

Back To Top – Retour en haut

Un des plus grands n’est plus

David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

English version : click here

Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

Top

Death of a giant

David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

More images in French section

Back To Top – Retour en haut

Un des plus grands n’est plus

David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026

English version : click here

Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).

On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.

https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7

J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.

Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.

Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.

Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans

David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture

Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019

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Death of a giant

David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.

There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).

Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.

Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.

https://youtu.be/g0-yI_Ph0aE

It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.

Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.

See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord

David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian

‘The vibrant proof of a presence slipped away’: Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death

Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019

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‘I worked every day’: How David Hockney fell in love with France during the Covid lockdown.

British artist David Hockney, who died at the age of 88 on Thursday, fell in love with the French countryside in the last few years of his life.

He settled in Normandy in 2019, where he lived during the Covid-19 lockdown and was able to rededicate himself to nature over a year of solitude.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260612-i-worked-every-day-how-david-hockney-fell-in-love-with-france-during-the-covid-lockdown?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#DavidHockney #France #Art #UK #Culture #Painting #Nature #Countryside #Normandy

‘I worked every day’: How David Hockney fell in love with France during the Covid lockdown.

British artist David Hockney, who died at the age of 88 on Thursday, fell in love with the French countryside in the last few years of his life.

He settled in Normandy in 2019, where he lived during the Covid-19 lockdown and was able to rededicate himself to nature over a year of solitude.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260612-i-worked-every-day-how-david-hockney-fell-in-love-with-france-during-the-covid-lockdown?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#DavidHockney #France #Art #UK #Culture #Painting #Nature #Countryside #Normandy

I entered the world of work where the analogue world was becoming digital…I am quintessential Gen X.

I was just reading some accounts in the weekend papers about #DavidHockney…and I had a brain fart.

Back in the early noughties I worked with a man called Bill Furlong whose life work was AudioArts, an art interview magazine which was released on audio cassette. He had an address book to die for as my much younger boss would regularly remind me…and I remember AudioArts being bought by the Tate

I entered the world of work where the analogue world was becoming digital…I am quintessential Gen X.

I was just reading some accounts in the weekend papers about #DavidHockney…and I had a brain fart.

Back in the early noughties I worked with a man called Bill Furlong whose life work was AudioArts, an art interview magazine which was released on audio cassette. He had an address book to die for as my much younger boss would regularly remind me…and I remember AudioArts being bought by the Tate

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Mistigram: this rare repost is a #teletext tribute to the 1966-67 #Splash series of #popart paintings by the late #DavidHockney, drawn by Jellica Jake. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

Mistodon: this rare repost is a #teletext tribute to the 1966-67 #Splash series of #popart paintings by the late #DavidHockney, drawn by @jellica. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

Mistigram: this rare repost is a #teletext tribute to the 1966-67 #Splash series of #popart paintings by the late #DavidHockney, drawn by @jellicajake.bsky.social. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

Mistodon: this rare repost is a #teletext tribute to the 1966-67 #Splash series of #popart paintings by the late #DavidHockney, drawn by @jellica. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

Mistigram: this rare repost is a #teletext tribute to the 1966-67 #Splash series of #popart paintings by the late #DavidHockney, drawn by @jellicajake.bsky.social. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

#Télérama : "#DavidHockney, un peintre qui a toujours représenté l’#amour #gay et l’effusion des sens"

"#Homosexuel à une époque où cette orientation était taboue, il a toujours peint le désir #homoérotique dans ses toiles. De manière suggérée d’abord, puis ouvertement dans des œuvres solaires."

https://www.telerama.fr/arts-expositions/david-hockney-un-peintre-qui-a-toujours-represente-l-amour-gay-et-l-effusion-des-sens-2254-7025212.php

#Télérama : "#DavidHockney, un peintre qui a toujours représenté l’#amour #gay et l’effusion des sens"

"#Homosexuel à une époque où cette orientation était taboue, il a toujours peint le désir #homoérotique dans ses toiles. De manière suggérée d’abord, puis ouvertement dans des œuvres solaires."

https://www.telerama.fr/arts-expositions/david-hockney-un-peintre-qui-a-toujours-represente-l-amour-gay-et-l-effusion-des-sens-2254-7025212.php

“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney

#DavidHockney #remembered #GiftLink #photography #quote #nytimes #art

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/arts/design/david-hockney-lawrence-weschler-appreciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.SzxY.pG7JahLKlbVj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney

#DavidHockney #remembered #GiftLink #photography #quote #nytimes #art

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/arts/design/david-hockney-lawrence-weschler-appreciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.SzxY.pG7JahLKlbVj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney

#DavidHockney #remembered #GiftLink #photography #quote #nytimes #art

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/arts/design/david-hockney-lawrence-weschler-appreciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.SzxY.pG7JahLKlbVj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney

#DavidHockney #remembered #GiftLink #photography #quote #nytimes #art

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/arts/design/david-hockney-lawrence-weschler-appreciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.SzxY.pG7JahLKlbVj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney

#DavidHockney #remembered #GiftLink #photography #quote #nytimes #art

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/arts/design/david-hockney-lawrence-weschler-appreciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p1A.SzxY.pG7JahLKlbVj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

BBC presenter forced to apologise after guest drops f-bomb during David Hockney tribute

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/13/bbc-presenter-forced-apologise-guest-drops-f-bomb-david-hockney-tribute-28759946/

BBC presenter forced to apologise after guest drops f-bomb during David Hockney tribute

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/13/bbc-presenter-forced-apologise-guest-drops-f-bomb-david-hockney-tribute-28759946/