David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful and stylized paintings brought new attention to narrative art in the late 1950s and early 1960s, after decades in which abstraction had dominated, died on June 11 at his home in London. He was 88. Hockey changed contemporary art in a number of ways, including his use of perspective and his bridging of the gap between painting and photography. Photography was central to Hockney's practice for decades: Starting in the early 1980s, he abandoned the single-point perspective of traditional photography to create fragmented, cubist collages.

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