《艺术家生平》系列的最新作品：世界上伟大艺术家大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）的短篇传记。

大卫·霍克尼被称为“最知名的英国在世画家”，也可以说是美国最知名的艺术家。20世纪60年代，他在英格兰北部崭露头角，随后在伦敦作为肖像画家而引起轰动，70年代搬到洛杉矶后，又在那里引起了更大的轰动。他在20世纪70年代和80年代的具象绘画中捕捉到了西海岸生活的时代精神，同时还探索了用宝丽来照片画马赛克的新途径。在本世纪初，他回到了家乡约克郡，开始了一个新的绘画时期。直至2013年，他的工作室助理在他的家中不幸身亡，霍克尼回到了洛杉矶的“家”，并在这几年里开始了一个新的沉思式肖像画创作时期。

The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artists

David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portraitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and 1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. By the beginning of the millennium, he returned to his Yorkshire roots, embarking on a new period of painting. This came to an end with the death by misadventure in his home of a young studio assistant in 2013. He went 'home' to LA and has in the intervening years begun a new period of contemplative portraiture.