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Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972.It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), [1] and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
Pages in category "Paintings by David Hockney" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán, 1985. A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán is a 1985 painting by the British artist David Hockney.. Hockney painted A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard after discovering a hotel courtyard in Mexico, when car trouble forced him to stop on the way while driving to Mexico City.
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a 1971 painting by the British artist David Hockney.Painted between 1970 and 1971, it depicts the fashion designer Ossie Clark and the textile designer Celia Birtwell in their flat in Notting Hill Gate shortly after their wedding, with one of the couple's cats on Clark's knee.
A Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 242.5 centimetres (95.5 in) by 243.9 centimetres (96.0 in), it depicts a swimming pool beside a modern house, disturbed by a large splash of water created by an unseen figure who has apparently just jumped in from a diving board.
Paintings by David Hockney (13 P) Pages in category "David Hockney" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Splash is the second in a sequence of three paintings of similar scenes made by Hockney in late 1966 and early 1967. Hockney worked up from the small The Little Splash through the midsized The Splash, both made in Los Angeles in 1966, to the largest, A Bigger Splash, approximately 96 in (240 cm) square, made in Berkeley in 1967.