David Hockney used computer graphics as early as the 1980s
The British painter was a restless experimenter who embraced digital tools decades before the iPad became his primary medium for painting.
Known for his sun-bleached paintings of California swimming pools and psychological portraits, David Hockney was a pioneer in merging traditional fine art with emerging technology. While he is celebrated for his mastery of color and light in oil and acrylic, he spent more than half a century constantly reinventing his toolkit. He was among the first major artists to treat the computer as a legitimate canvas, experimenting with digital graphics as early as the 1980s.
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