Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. The most highly publicized British artist since the Second World War, he is best known for the pictorial production that rapresent the main field of his artistic activity (besides his publicly acknowledged homosexuality), but he has always been interested in the full spectrum of the arts as a a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer: “I’m interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything,” said Hockney. “All of them are artifice – technology alters the way you make pictures.” In keeping with his philosophy, he has used faxes, laser prints, and color copies to create his signature intense colors. The shifts in color that occur in reproduction have also been an important aspect of his work. His artistic production has consistently examined the relationship between image and reality, space and perspective.
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