Born, England, 1937. Studied at RAC 1959-60 and was expelled. Used subjective reality for content of art.
Lived and worked in New York 1964-65, an experience which changed him from painter to graphic artist.
Gentle eroticism grew to more fetishistically charge material. Hockney compared his work to illustrations in fetish magazines. Then collected cuttings from magazines as source material for paintings.
Employs exaggerated images of sexuality in later paintings. US counterparts: Lindner and Wesselmann.