David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died • Tribute: ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’ • David Hockney’s life in pictures

David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.

He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies.