‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure, He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David Hockney, who has died aged 88, lived and painted the truth • David Hockney – a life in pictures • David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 David Hockney changed the world just by looking at it. His art was a feast of unabashed visual pleasure, one long orgy of the gaze, the delighted lifelong epiphany of someone who cherished flowers in a vase and freeways in the sun and thought endlessly about new ways of making pictures of such passing treasures. It didn’t seem to occur to him that the way he saw was revolutionary – all he cared about was truth. But no one had ever captured the look and feel of the contemporary world with such acceptance before. He has the same simple perfection as the Beatles –

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