David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 · nytimes.comHis colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 · nytimes.comHis colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.