David Hockney was born in Bradford, England, July 9, 1937. He went to art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. Hockney is openly gay. His nationality is English. He admired the art of Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard. His parents encouraged him to be creative and explore different types of art, that is how he found out how to do the unique photos that he does now.
Hockney’s early paintings incorporated his literary leanings, and he used fragments of poems and quotations from Walt Whitman in his work. Hockney would go to see movies with his father and they would inspire them to make more art.
