Even though he would reject this classification, David Hockney is regarded a luminary of Pop Art.
David Hockney studied in London together with Ronald B. Kitaj, who had a major influence on the development of his style. In the early 1960s the artist settled in California, an arcadia with athletic young men on swimming pools lined with palm trees, which would soon come to show in subjects showing notions of homosexuality. The artist found inspirations for his art, which is characterized by clear colors and a cool and reduced figuration, in his immediate surroundings. David Hockney's artistic variety is marked by his innovative urge, which integrates painting and graphic art, but also photography, photo collages as well as art made with copying machines, faxes, computer and even the iPhone.
Numerous international retrospectives honor the trend-setting David Hockney, whose works are on display in renowned museums such as the Art Institute Chicago, the Munich 'Pinakothek der Moderne' or the National Museum of Modern Art in Kioto.