David Hockney is an English painter considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. A leading figure in British Pop Art, he gained prominence in the 1960s with works like A Bigger Splash (1967), his best-known artwork showing a Los Angeles swimming pool. He moved to the US in the 1960s, embraced his homosexuality, and later became known for iPad drawings and large-scale landscape murals.