Blog Archive » David Hockney (1937-2026) (opens in new tab)

In 1981 Hockney visited China with the poet Stephen Spender, which inspired their collaborative 1982 book China Diary. Hockney also explored traditional Chinese landscape scrolls in his acclaimed 1988 documentary film A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, where Hockney examines a 72-foot-long 17th-century Qing Dynasty scroll.