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California Through the Eyes of David Hockney: Iconic pools and swimmers

Welcome to California. A state with brighter colors, the climate sunnier and life more relaxed. At least according to David Hockney, he created some of his most famous pool paintings at the time. His fascination with the changing surface of the water became his central artistic motif and gave rise to countless works featuring a dominant body of water, supplemented here and there by modernist architecture, mountainous scenery, or naked bathing…