David Hockney, the celebrated British artist who helped define contemporary visual culture, has died at 88. Over seven decades, Hockney worked across painting, photography, and digital media, becoming known for his boldly colored depictions of swimming pools, landscapes, and domestic scenes in California, Normandy, and the UK. His ability to blend pop art sensibility with landscape tradition made him one of the most influential artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, according to France 24.

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