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David Hockney, OM, CH, RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter,
draftsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important
contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the
most influential British artists of the 20th century.[2][3]
The work of Broadway's gay and lesbian artistic community went on display in
2007 when the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery presents "StageStruck:
The Magic of Theatre Design." The exhibit was conceived to highlight the
achievements of gay and lesbian designers who work in conjunction with fellow
gay and lesbian playwrights, directors, choreographers and composers. Original
sketches, props, set pieces and models — some from private collections —
represent the work of over 60 designers, including David Hockney.
Hockney has owned a home and studio in Bridlington, London, and two
residences in California, where he has lived on and off since 1964: one in the
Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu, and an office and archives on Santa Monica
Boulevard[4]
in West Hollywood, California.[5][6][7]
Hockney was born in Bradford, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney (a
conscientious objector in the Second World War), the fourth of five children.[8][9]
He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School,
Bradford College of Art (where his teachers included Frank Lisle[10]
and his fellow students included Norman Stevens, David Oxtoby and John Loker[11][12])
and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj.[8]
While there, Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work. At the
Royal College of Art, Hockney featured in the exhibition Young
Contemporaries—alongside Peter Blake—that announced the arrival of British
Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display
expressionist elements, similar to some works by
Francis Bacon. When the RCA said it would not let him graduate if he did
not complete an assignment of a life drawing of a female model in 1962,
Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest. He had refused
to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be
assessed solely on his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing
reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded the diploma. After
leaving the RCA, he taught at Maidstone College of Art for a short time.[13]
David Hockney
Francis Goodman (1913–1989)
National Portrait Gallery, London
david hockney life painting for a diploma 1962
david-hockney going-to-be-a-queen-for-tonight 1960
The artist moved to Los Angeles in 1964, where he was inspired to make a
series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium
using vibrant colours. The artist lived back and forth among Los Angeles,
London, and Paris in the late 1960s to 1970s. In 1974 he began a decade-long
personal relationship with Gregory Evans
who moved with him to the US in 1976 and as of 2018 remains a business
partner.[14]
In 1978 he rented a house in the Hollywood Hills, and later bought and
expanded it to include his studio.[15]
He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house at 21039 Pacific Coast Highway
in Malibu, which he sold in 1999 for around $1.5 million.
Hockney is openly gay,[16]
and has openly explored the nature of gay love in his portraiture. Sometimes,
as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by
Walt Whitman, the works
refer to his love for men. In 1963, he painted two men together in the
painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering
while the other washes his back.[17]
In summer 1966, while teaching at UCLA he met
Peter Schlesinger,
an art student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became
romantically involved.[18]
On the morning of 18 March 2013, Hockney's 23-year-old assistant, Dominic
Elliott, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington
studio; he had also earlier drunk alcohol and taken cocaine, ecstasy and
temazepam. Elliott was a first- and second-team player for Bridlington rugby
club. It was reported that Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough
General Hospital where he later died. The inquest returned a verdict of death
by misadventure and Hockney was never implicated.[19][20][21]
In November 2015 Hockney sold his house in Bridlington, a five-bedroomed
former guest house, for £625,000, cutting all his remaining ties with the
town.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney
- Hidden Histories, 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual
Arts, by Michael Petry
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https://www.playbill.com/article/stagestruck-exhibit-featuring-gay-and-lesbian-broadway-design-talent-begins-nov-14-com-145399
