{"id":473604,"date":"2026-06-12T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473604\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:10:09","slug":"celebrated-british-artist-david-hockney-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473604\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated British artist David Hockney dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hockney became famous for his figurative and experimental workpublished at 11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Hockney poses with one of his paintings in Paris in 2017\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b361c809-49cd-49e0-a858-f218a78e1511.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1010\" height=\"568\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Hockney poses with one of his paintings in Paris in 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Hockney, known for his figurative work, economy of line, and exploration of light and space, is considered one of Britain&#8217;s most influential contemporary artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Throughout a career spanning seven decades, Hockney experimented with painting, drawing, printmarking, watercolours and various other forms of art &#8211; including embracing technology by drawing on an iPad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hockney moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, a move which inspired some of his most famous works, including swimming pool scenes such as &#8216;A Bigger Splash&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2018, his work &#8216;Portrait of an Artist&#8217; sold for $90m (\u00a370m) at auction, setting a then-record for a living artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His work has been presented in art institutions around the world, including the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Tate Britain in London, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockney became famous for his figurative and experimental workpublished at 11:32 BST 11:32 BST Image source, Getty ImagesImage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-473604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}