Who is David Hockney and what are his most famous artworks? English painter, iPad art fan and creator of The Sun’s new masthead
ICONIC British artist David Hockney has created a mesmerising new logo for Britain's favourite newspaper.
Hockney used an iPad to redesign The Sun's famous 'masthead' which will feature on the front page of tomorrow's edition.
Who is David Hockney?
Voted the most influential British artist of the 20th Century, Hockney was born in Bradford in 1937.
His talents as an artist were clear from a young age and he attended Bradford College of Art from 1953 to 1957.
He then went to the prestigious Royal College of Art in London where his work received acclaim and was bought by private collectors.
Hockney’s love of cinema and Hollywood drew him to Los Angeles where he moved in 1966.
'La La Land' would be a defining influence in his work particularly the swimming pools featured in the homes scattered around the Hollywood Hills.
By the 1970s, Hockney developed a more realist style of painting while still continuing to paint homes in California.
In 1970, he created his first ‘joiner’ painting using a number of Polaroid images.
During this period of his illustrious career he moved away from paint and concentrated more on using photography in his work.
But by the late 1980s he returned to painting creating beautiful landscapes and portraits.
He also started to use technology in his work first with printers in the 80s and 1990s and then using iPhone and iPads in the 2000s.
In 2011, he was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th Century by his peers.
His latest exhibition at Tate Britain start on February 9.
What are Hockney's famous paintings?
Hockney’s most iconic painting is 'A Bigger Splash' which depicts a Californian swimming pool.
Painted in 1967, the work sold for £2.6million in 2006 at an auction at Sotheby’s.
Also crafted in ’67, the 'Beverly Hills Housewife' features American philanthropist Betty Freeman standing outside her LA mansion.
One of Hockney’s most celebrated pieces, the picture was sold at auction in New York for a whopping £6.4million in 2009.
After spending much of the 1980s photographing the famous canyon in Arizona, the artist returned to the vast landscape in 1998 painting 'A Bigger Grand Canyon'.
Among the artist’s more recent works is 'Arranged Felled Trees' which is a beautiful landscape depicting a forest in Yorkshire.
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