I'm largely unfamiliar with his work, but in reading the article and viewing a few works online, I was struck strongly by the resemblances between his work and that of Alex Colville, 17 years his senior. To say that Hockney "restored the human form to art" and to ignore, to not even mention, Colville, seems hagiographic and willfully ignorant.

I'm in no way asserting that Colville restored the human form to art either, just observing that Hockney was far for alone in using the human form to convey aspects of his meaning.