п?п·п п?п? David (Hockney David)

(p. 1937)
In his work he refers to a variety of styles, both traditional and emerging.
Hockney was born July 9, 1937 in Bradford (Yorkshire), was educated at Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art (1959-1960). Exhibitions of his works, held in the United States (1964 and 1965), London (1970) and other European countries (1970 and 1974), Hockney created a reputation as the most popular contemporary British artist.
Many of his works Hockney created as a sign of reverence for the masters of the past. Example, . the composition artist and model (1974) himself naked Hockney sits in front of Picasso as a model, . tensely watching the masters, in considering the arrangement pattern on the screen (1977) depicts a museum curator and art critic Henry Geldtsaler, . studying the reproduction of four pictures on the screen,
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In 1982 the exhibition 'David Hockney - photographer' at the Pompidou Center in Paris and the book David Hockney: pictures (David Hockney: photographs, 1982) have made him a leading master of modern photography. A large retrospective exhibition of works by the artist exhibited in 1998 in Los Angeles and New York. Hockney has published two volumes of memoirs: David Hockney (David Hockney by David Hockney, 1977) and this way I see it (That's the Way I See It, 1993).