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1. 0:02david hockney
2. 0:04hockney was born in 1937 in a city
3. 0:07called bradford
4. 0:09he lived with his parents and grew up
5. 0:11with three brothers and one sister
6. 0:14after he finished school he attended
7. 0:16bradford art college in 1953 where he
8. 0:19achieved a first class in his degree
9. 0:21it was here he learnt about the
10. 0:23fundamentals of art and mainly used oil
11. 0:25paints after he graduated he wanted to
12. 0:28go on to do better things so he left
13. 0:30bradford and headed to london to study
14. 0:32at the royal college of art
15. 0:34it was here that he became one of the
16. 0:36main influences of pop art pop art is
17. 0:39based on popular culture such as
18. 0:40celebrities music advertisements and
19. 0:42more after a few years in london he
20. 0:45moved to los angeles in 1964.
21. 0:48he was mesmerised by la swimming pools
22. 0:50and other glistening surfaces
23. 0:52[Music]
24. 0:53he was inspired by how water interacted
25. 0:56with light
26. 0:58[Music]
27. 1:01in the early 80s hockney took to
28. 1:03photography
29. 1:05he took inspiration from picasso through
30. 1:07cubism
31. 1:08he shot hundreds of photographs and
32. 1:10piece them all together to create a
33. 1:12masterpiece
34. 1:13you can see how his style develops
35. 1:16it took him a week to take all the
36. 1:18pictures for this one and even longer to
37. 1:20collage it all together
38. 1:22when hockley turned 50 in 1987 he
39. 1:25adopted two dashens named stanley and
40. 1:27rupert
41. 1:28they soon became his best friends and
42. 1:30also the subject of his artwork
43. 1:33his friend back in yorkshire jonathan
44. 1:35silva transformed the salts mill
45. 1:37building in solenter which is on the
46. 1:39outskirts of bradford and he wanted to
47. 1:40showcase hockney's artwork
48. 1:43he transformed this dilapidated building
49. 1:45into an incredible art space which also
50. 1:47helped bring some economy into the
51. 1:49suffering village at the time
52. 1:52jonathan took ill so hockney flew back
53. 1:54to the uk and stayed in bridlington he
54. 1:56drove across the yorkshire walls to
55. 1:58visit jonathan and wetherby before he
56. 2:00sadly passed away
57. 2:01[Music]
58. 2:02hockney painted this route from memory
59. 2:04when he got back to california
60. 2:08in the early 2000s hockney decided to
61. 2:11travel a bit of europe he used
62. 2:12watercolors while still maintaining the
63. 2:14bright bold colors he loved to use
64. 2:18after travelling he returned to the
65. 2:19seaside town of bridlington in east
66. 2:21yorkshire
67. 2:23it was here he developed the love of the
68. 2:24yorkshire walls
69. 2:26the rolling hills woodlands and
70. 2:28farmlands inspired his artwork
71. 2:31and he often returned to the same places
72. 2:33to catch the landscapes in different
73. 2:35seasons
74. 2:38in 2008 he permanently moved to
75. 2:40bridlington he started to explore
76. 2:42digital art by using apps on his iphone
77. 2:45still using bold colors he captures the
78. 2:47subjects with great detail
79. 2:50hockney also used his computer to create
80. 2:52and manipulate his artwork
81. 2:54in 2010 david pockney bought one of the
82. 2:57first releases of the ipads at the time
83. 3:00he was excited to have a bigger screen
84. 3:02he returned to california for a trip and
85. 3:04produced these ipad drawings of the
86. 3:06yosemite
87. 3:10in 2011 hockney was voted the most
88. 3:13influential british painter
89. 3:16hockney still continues to create art in
90. 3:19his 80s
91. 3:21so let's have a look at the timeline
92. 3:27[Music]
93. 3:34what's your favorite hockney style