Born 9 July 1937
Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.
Hockney made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndbourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. As he was Born with synesthesia, he sees synesthetic colours in response to musical stimuli. This does not show up in his painting or photography artwork, but is an underlying principle in his designs for stage sets for ballet and opera; where he bases background colours and lighting on the colours he sees while listening to the piece's music.
In December 1985, Hockney used the Quantal paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled a number to sketch directly onto the screen. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled a number of artists.
Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the brushes iPhones and iPad application. His show Fleurs fraîches was held at La Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris. A Fresh-Flowers exhibit opened in 2011 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, featuring more than 100 of his drawings on 25 iPads and 20 iPods. In late 2011, Hockney revisited California to paint Yosemite National Park on his iPad. For the season 2012–2013 in the Vienna State Opera he designed, on his iPad, a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series Safety Curtain, conceived by musuem in progress.
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