‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households ‘He changed the world just by looking at it’ David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash, his most famous painting, reproductions have become a visual motif in gay domestic life. I’ve seen fra...

By Louis Staples