David Hockney, revolutionary British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sunkissed visions of California and never stopped breaking barriers, going on to become one of contemporary art’s most important figures, has died• ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’• David Hockney’s life in picturesDavid 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 sw...