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Paul McCartney<\/a>\u00a0has paid tribute to his friend, the great British artist David Hockney, saying he will miss his \u201cfabulous personality\u201d.<\/p>\n Bradford native\u00a0Hockney\u00a0passed away peacefully at his home\u00a0on Thursday (June 11) at the age of 88\u00a0after a career that\u00a0saw him lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the 20th\u00a0century. A\u00a0defining figure in British art, his works included\u00a0A Bigger Splash <\/i>and\u00a0Portrait\u00a0Of\u00a0An\u00a0Artist (Pool\u00a0With\u00a0Two Figures)<\/i>.<\/p>\n One of the friends he made over the years was\u00a0Beatles<\/a>\u00a0legend McCartney, who has shared a personal tribute to him on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n Alongside a photo of the two\u00a0arm\u00a0in arm, McCartney wrote: \u201cDavid Hockney was a friend and an incredible painter. I knew him during the 1960s and kept a friendship going till he died on Thursday, the 11th of June. He was very\u00a0clever\u00a0witty and fun to be with.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHis paintings often gave off a feeling of great joy,\u201d he added. \u201cNancy and I enjoyed visiting his studios in California where we took a drive along Mulholland Drive which he made famous all over again in his sensational paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOr in his London studio. The rooms were filled with paintings. Often some of the most recent pictures that he had\u00a0done. He would talk about them and his very particular views on art. He felt that it was important to\u00a0see\u00a0correctly. He\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0a great fan of perspective and was always\u00a0involved in\u00a0inventing new ways to view the world. His many paintings, drawings,\u00a0films\u00a0and other media like iPad drawing he took readily to and mastered.\u201d<\/p>\n McCartney continued: \u201cHe was a serious Chain Smoker and believed it was everyone\u2019s right to smoke like the days when he and I had been brought up in smoke filled rooms. We visited him once in Bridlington, Yorkshire. He met us at the train station and drove us to his house in a smoke filled car.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will miss his fabulous personality, his laconic\u00a0wit\u00a0and his erudite views on how to look at the world,\u201d he concluded. \u201cRest in peace, David. We love you.\u201d<\/p>\n McCartney also\u00a0features in\u00a0a tribute that\u00a0Jools Holland<\/a>\u00a0has shared, posting a photo of himself, McCartney, Hockney,\u00a0Elton John<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Hanks<\/a> all sitting together at Hockney\u2019s Bigger & Closer\u00a0<\/i>exhibition.<\/p>\n \u201cVery sad to hear we have lost David Hockney,\u201d Holland wrote. \u201cAt the time he told me a critic had said why is Hockney doing landscapes? That\u2019s dead art. Hockney said, \u2018landscapes are nature and nature doesn\u2019t f***ing die\u2019. I send all sympathy to his loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n Harry Styles also paid\u00a0his tribute during his opening show at Wembley Stadium last night <\/a>(June 12). The singer \u2013\u00a0who was painted by Hockney for a piece that was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2023<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 shared a quote from the artist on the big screens at the show.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing,\u201d the quote read. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n
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