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How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself

A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.

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David Hockney repainted his own pool — and signed and dated it July 8, 2017, the day before his 80th birthday.
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David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still

“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.
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