David Hockney regarded as among the world’s greatest living artists is opening his biggest ever show in Paris, filling 11 room across four floors. Two years ago, when they started planning the exhibition, “I just thought I probably wouldn’t be here”, he says. “I’m still a smoker, a happy smoker fed up of bossy people telling you what to do.” He is in poor health, having two full-time carers but still paints for four to six hours every day.
He was a significant contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s and several years ago one of his swimming pool paintings broke the world record for a living artist selling for $90 million in New York.
Born 9 July 1937, no birth time, in Bradford, England, he has a chart replete with high confidence, ultra-determination and rebelliousness. He has a creative Cancer Sun, forming part of a talented Half Grand Trine from an unconventional Uranus opposition Mars in intense Scorpio, sextile Neptune and Sun. Not a man who appreciates interference or being told what to do. His Jupiter in a wide, nature-loving Earth Grand Trine to Neptune and Uranus is in an assertive opposition to Pluto – he pleases himself and ignores rules set for ordinary people.
He’s always stuck to his guns about what he’ll do and not do, disregarding his Royal Art College diploma requirements, which later caused them to change their regulations.
Long may he continue.
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