FREE DAVID HOCKNEY: THE BIOGRAPHY, 1975-2012 PDF Christopher Simon Sykes | 448 pages | 11 Nov 2014 | Nan A. Talese | 9780385535908 | English | United States David Hockney: The Biography, by Christopher Simon Sykes David Hockney: The Biography of five 1975-2012, David Hockney was born into a working-class family in Yorkshire, northern 1975-2012, in the industrial city of Bradford. His father, a conscientious objector during the David Hockney: The Biography World War, "had a kind heart" remembers Hockney. He also romanticized 1975-2012 ideals of the Communist party in Russia. While adopting his father's anti-war stance, Hockney remained resistant to ideologies and hierarchies. As a schoolboy, Hockney says of himself, "I was always quite serious, but cheeky. At his school academically promising boys 1975-2012 forced to drop art as a subject and so he deliberately failed his exams. Unlike most of his peers Hockney was working class, and 1975-2012 worked tirelessly, especially in his life drawing classes, recalling: "I was there from nine in the morning till nine at night. In he was called up for National Service, but as a conscientious objector he served out his time as a hospital orderly. It was around this time that Hockney encountered the work 1975-2012 Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilevwhose openness about his sexual identity gave Hockney the courage to reveal his own. His friends included R. Kitaj, Allen Jones, and Peter Blake. At the time, David Hockney: The Biography college asked students to submit an essay along with David Hockney: The Biography final work. Hockney refused, wanting to be judged solely on the basis of his art. Remarkably, the RCA, a bastion of tradition, changed its rules to allow him David Hockney: The Biography graduate. Hockney's first solo show, held in at John Kasmin's gallery, proved very successful. The following year he traveled to Los Angeles for the first time, where he met leading intellectual and artistic figures including Christopher Isherwood, and designer Ossie Clarke, with whom he struck up David Hockney: The Biography close friendship and later traveled to the Grand Canyon. He would later be best man at Clarke's wedding to Celia Birtwell, of whom he would paint and draw many portraits. Over the following few years, he resided almost permanently in California, teaching at various universities including Berkeley and UCLA, but also traveling extensively around the US and Europe. During this period he painted some of his best-known works, including A Bigger Splash He also began to design productions for the ballet, opera, and theater. In California during the 'swinging 60s', Hockney embraced the mood of experimentation, exploration, and iconoclasm. At a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the U. He met and started a long-term relationship with Peter Schlesinger, who also frequently acted as his model, a relationship that lasted from to Of his unconventional lifestyle and experimentation with drugs during this period, Hockney has commented: "you can't have a smoke-free bohemia. You can't have a drug-free bohemia. You can't have a drink-free bohemia. By the mids, he was famous. In Hockney published his autobiography and inhe settled in Los Angeles, which became his permanent home. The David Hockney: The Biography crisis of the s changed the art world forever, and had a particularly profound impact on Hockney who recalls "the first David Hockney: The Biography to die of AIDS that I knew was inand then for ten years it was lots of people. If all those people were still here, I think it would be a different place. He threatened to cancel it in protest of anti-homosexual legislation being proposed in Britain at the time. The s constituted a very productive period for Hockney, with a huge number of retrospectives and exhibitions around the world. Inhe began a relationship with John Fitzherbert, a David Hockney: The Biography chef, which lasted for the next 25 years. One of his most important large-scale works, A Closer Grand Canyonwas completed in From he researched and wrote a book about the Old Mastersdeveloping a theory that these artists made use of the camera far earlier than previously thought. While Hockney's theory met with significant resistance, it has gained widespread support from the art 1975-2012 community. InHockney moved to the Yorkshire seaside town of Bridlington. In the same year, 1975-2012 sat for hours for a portrait painted by Lucian Freud. In return, Freud sat for four hours for him. Hockney had a stroke inwhich for a while impaired his speech. Much to his relief, "the stroke didn't affect my drawing, and that's the most important thing. David Hockney: The Biography had taken cocaine and ecstasy 1975-2012 drank a bottle of drain cleaner. Elliot had been in a relationship with Hockney's former partner John Fitzherbert, who was still living with him. At the high-profile inquest, Hockney was required to give evidence that the David Hockney: The Biography was not a murder. In a David Hockney: The Biography of British art students rated Hockney as the most influential artist of all time. His work has played a crucial role in reviving the practice of figurative painting. Chuck CloseCecily Brownand film director Martin 1975-2012 especially the aesthetics of Taxi Driver are among the artists inspired by Hockney. Hockney, still prolific, continues to reinvent himself, embracing contemporary technology. His most recent series of David Hockney: The Biography was produced 1975-2012 an iPad. Despite his widespread fame, he remains an iconoclast, steadfastly refusing to accept institutional authority, even some of the highest honors, turning down an invitation to paint a portrait of the Queen Hockney was "very busy" and couldn't make itand the Order of Merit, a knighthood. I value my friends. Content compiled and written by Anne Souter. Edited and revised, with 1975-2012 and Accomplishments added by Ruth Epstein. The Art Story. Ways to 1975-2012 us. All art is 1975-2012, if it's alive, and if it's not David Hockney: The Biography, what's the point of it? If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist David Hockney: The Biography has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. I 1975-2012 thought the swimming pool pictures were at all about mere hedonist pleasure. They were about the surface of the water, the very thin film, the shimmering two-dimensionality. It's hard work, but I like it. Frank Auerbach said once it is a lot of fun as well, and it is. I like making pictures, I do, yeah. The joy and urge to draw is an ancient, 40,year- old impulse. Photography is all David Hockney: The Biography if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops. But that's not what it is like to live in the world. It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says 1975-2012 his work. Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met David Hockney: The Biography who didn't like a pretty face. Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. Drawing is rather like playing chess: your 1975-2012 races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. Andy Warhol. Summary Biography Artworks. Peter Blake. Lucian Freud. Pop Art. Summary Concepts Artworks. British Pop Art. School of London. Cite article. 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Bursting onto the scene at the Young Contemporaries exhibition, Hockney was quickly heralded as the golden boy of postwar British art and a leading proponent of pop art.