{"id":61788,"date":"2026-06-12T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/61788\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:24:17","slug":"britains-david-hockney-a-giant-of-contemporary-art-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/61788\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s David Hockney, a giant of contemporary art, dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88, his publicist announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tributes poured in for the 1960s pop art pioneer who established himself as a globally renowned painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting right up until his death.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI think I\u2019ve something to say to people \u2013 that\u2019s why,\u201d he told the Daily Telegraph in October in his last major interview.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lauding him as \u201cone of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries\u201d, his publicist Erica Bolton said he died \u201cpeacefully at home\u201d in London on Thursday, a month before his 89th birthday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHis seven-decade career and prolific oeuvre was characterised by his multimedia approach in image making, an intellectual inquiry into the nature of depiction and perspective, and a sustained commitment to celebrating and portraying the world around him,\u201d her statement added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British artist David Hockney poses for an exhibition of his new work in London, Britain, in May 2015. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a8e47515-4215-43f9-a9a5-96d8179f01a0_9cb6fcc1.jpg\" title=\"British artist David Hockney poses for an exhibition of his new work in London, Britain, in May 2015. Photo: EPA\"\/>British artist David Hockney poses for an exhibition of his new work in London, Britain, in May 2015. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Acclaimed worldwide, Britain made him a Companion of Honour in 1997. Earlier this year, Hockney became one of the few non-French citizens to be awarded the highest level of France\u2019s main civilian honour, the legion d\u2019honneur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art whose paintings captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[29840,13,374,29841,29842,83,94,27,3685],"class_list":["post-61788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-bradford-school-of-art","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-david-hockney","tag-erica-bolton","tag-france","tag-keir-starmer","tag-london","tag-paris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116738776389022807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}