David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was by some margin the most popular British artist of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his pictures will still be loved long after we’ve all shuffled off this mortal coil too.
He was a brilliant artist, of course, but he was also a personality.
A virtuoso draughtsman from the off, he was already courting celebrity at the Royal College of Art at the turn of the 1960s: bleaching his hair, buying a gold-lamé jacket to stand out at his graduation.
Read Alastair's full piece here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-titan-tribute/
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