How David Hockney Turned His Style Into a Living Masterpiece

How David Hockney Turned His Style Into a Living Masterpiece

By the time 600 drones redrew A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist over the night sky in Bradford this year, David Hockney felt less like a painter and more like shared muscle memory. We recognize him before we name him. The peroxide fringe that started with a Clairol ad in the sixties. The round, black glasses that turned his face into a kind of logo. The cardigans that seldom match the shirt, the ties that ignore harmony. Most of us met h…