{"id":495891,"date":"2026-06-12T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495891\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:49:09","slug":"artist-david-hockney-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495891\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist David Hockney dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Hockney: &#8216;A genius in practically every medium&#8217;published at 11:01 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:01 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Sam Woodhouse<br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Hockney pictured in a check jacket in front of one of his paintings\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f3ca51a2-e938-4414-9209-8d9a802ec218.jpg.webp\"  width=\"927\" height=\"521\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain&#8217;s favourite artist &#8211; and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A genius in practically every medium, he worked with paint, photographs and iPads. He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows &#8211; equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A peroxide Bradford blond with round glasses and cheese-cutter hat, he set the art world alight in the 1960s, and packed out art galleries more than half a century later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2018, one of his swimming pool paintings sold for nearly \u00a370 million at auction &#8211; a record for a living artist. But Hockney was surprised at the public enthusiasm for his work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had simply followed one rule: &#8220;Paint the things you love&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Hockney: &#8216;A genius in practically every medium&#8217;published at 11:01 BST 11:01 BST Sam WoodhouseBBC News Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-495891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}