Hockney celebrated same-sex relationships in his art - often by depicting the everyday moments of domestic life.
The artist, who has died at the age of 88, "was one of life's true originals", King Charles says.
British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88, his publicist announced on Friday. Tributes poured in for the 1960s pop art pioneer who established himself as a globally renowned painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting right up until his death. “I think I’ve something to say to people – that’s why,” he told the Daily Telegraph in...
Hockney is considered an influential and defining figure in 20th and 21st century contemporary painting.
The proud Yorkshireman, who also painted iconic pictures of America, was routinely described as Britain's greatest artist.