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David Hockney, the innovative and prolific British artist who arrived in Los Angeles in 1964, soon celebrating its sun-drenched life and landscapes in colorful, wildly popular paintings, died Thursday. He was 88. www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

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Tha' swimming pools empty T'were an image o'simplicity Bradford then fame a'plenty That there London & tha' city It pulled tha' northern soul Into rich circles wi' pop art L.A ta' Bridlington fill tha' hole Watercolours & back ta' tha' start Simply complex just like life Old masters obscura revealed

Hockey was a true artist, unafraid to embrace new technology to push his art into new territory. "Widely known for his ready embrace of new technology...Hockney first began to experiment with the fax machine in the 1980s, transmitting drawings around the globe to friends and galleries alike."- LAMA

He stiched together some of those Normandy paintings in your photo bottom right into a huge frieze: it is on show now at London's Serpentine Gallery. One of his last works... Here is a picture of one section to give you an idea of it...