He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David Hockney, who has died aged 88, lived and painted the truth

David Hockney’s art endures because it does not just depict what we see; it reshapes the act of seeing itself and turns familiar images into quiet...

Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.

Artist David Hockney has died at 88