Paul Morley started writing his biography of David Hockney following David Hockney's death

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Members of prominent 1960s British rock bands, including the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, and the Pretty Things, had art school backgrounds

The topography of Bradford and the surrounding moors influenced David Hockney's technical understanding of visual perspective

Painting swimming pools presented David Hockney with the technical challenge of depicting transparent, continuously moving water and reflected light

Paul Morley authored a biography of musician David Bowie shortly after Bowie's death

David Hockney viewed depictions of California's light in Laurel and Hardy films before visiting the United States

David Hockney attended the Royal College of Art during the early emergence of British pop art in London

David Hockney spent his childhood and youth in postwar Bradford during the 1940s and 1950s

Prior to traveling to California, David Hockney constructed an imagined version of California through American films, music, and magazines

David Hockney's earliest artworks depicted scenes of Bradford and portraits of his family members

Magazines containing queer imagery were transported from California to northern England and London during David Hockney's early career

Paul Morley's biography 'David: An Artist for Life' frames David Hockney's career through the lens of place

David Hockney resided and worked in Paris during the 1970s

Paul Morley's biography of David Hockney forms the third installment in Morley's biographical trilogy following two books about David Bowie

Paul Morley's biography of David Hockney includes a chapter examining the artist's studio as a portable location

David Hockney titled one of his earliest California paintings 'Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool'

While at the Royal College of Art, David Hockney encountered American Abstract Expressionism alongside British pop art

Following the end of British national service, art schools became major centers for postwar British youth to explore creative identity

David Hockney left Bradford to attend the Royal College of Art in London

Paul Morley is the author of 'The North: (And Almost Everything in It)' and 'From Manchester with Love'

David Hockney lived and painted in Yorkshire and Normandy later in his artistic career