David Hockney vs. Pablo Picasso
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Hockney
1937 – 2026
David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
"What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw."
Pablo Picasso
1881 – 1973
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
"I was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue."
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