{"title":"David Hockney","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDavid Hockney was one of Britain’s most influential modern artists, celebrated for his vivid use of colour, precise draughtsmanship and restless experimentation. Born in Bradford in 1937, he studied at the Royal College of Art and emerged as a leading figure in 1960s Pop art. His early work brought together personal experience, wit and bold graphic style, while his move to California in 1964 opened a new visual world of light, space, pools and modern architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHockney’s paintings, including \u003ci\u003eA Bigger Splash\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)\u003c\/i\u003e, became defining images of post-war art. Across his career he moved between painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, stage design and digital media, later embracing iPhones and iPads to create expansive landscapes and portraits. Whether depicting Los Angeles, Yorkshire or intimate figures from his life, Hockney remained committed to looking closely, reinventing perspective and showing the pleasure of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"olympische-spiele-munchen-1972-the-diver","title":"Olympische Spiele München, 1972 (The Diver)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Hockney's seminal 1972 lithograph, commissioned for the Munich Olympic Games, captures the artist's obsession with water, light, and spatial abstraction. *The Diver* presents a swimmer suspended in a luminous turquoise pool—a masterwork of Pop art sensibility rendered in Hockney's signature flattened perspective and chromatic brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition distils the dynamism of athletic movement into pure colour and form, merging the immediacy of the Olympic moment with Hockney's meditative exploration of the swimming pool as a subject of enduring fascination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work exemplifies his ability to transform the everyday into the monumental. Presented at an impressive 94 × 132 cm, this framed print commands presence on any wall. An essential acquisition for collectors of twentieth-century British art and a gateway into one of the most influential artistic practices of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Hockney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53253237047562,"sku":null,"price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/2895\/9242\/files\/IMG_4273.jpg?v=1782392117"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/2895\/9242\/collections\/Image_24-06-2026_at_21.39.png?v=1782333599","url":"https:\/\/molasseshouse.com\/collections\/david-hockney.oembed","provider":"Molasses House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}