Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton is a painter and collage artist who was born in London, England in 1922. Hamilton studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art and eventually enrolled into the Royal Academy Schools. After serving in the war Hamilton continued his studies at the Slade School of Art, University College, London England. Hamilton first began exhibiting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and became part of the Independent Group at the ICA. Hamilton lives and works in Oxfordshire.
James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp became major influences on Hamilton’s thinking and drawings. Hamilton participated in the Independent Group discussing popular culture, media, and art. Other exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Arts inspired Hamilton and he became interested in contemporary writers such as Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes. These contemporary writers wrote about concerns with lifestyles, power, sexuality and consumerism. Hamilton inspired by these writings created the collage, Just What Is it that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? In this collage the domestic interior scene contains a semi-nude couple that were cut out from a mass circulated magazine and modern comfortable living situation. Hamilton with this piece is playing with the affluence and consumerism.
Hamilton’s work interests me because on his use of collage. Using current magazines from when he made the collages and layering the images to create domestic spaces is interesting to me. Hamilton was fascinated with mass produced images and he created artwork that could easily be massed produced which I find interesting.
Quotes:
"Pop Art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business" – Richard Hamilton
“We called it pop art and Elvis Presley would be a manifestation of pop art, and advertising would be a manifestation of pop art, and so all these things were not seen to be susceptible to treatment. These ideas were not seen susceptible to treatment in the world of fine art, and all the people that I associated with were really hard-edged painters. That was the fashion at the time and Lawrence Alloway, who is always attributed to be the man who invented the name pop art, was curating the exhibitions of just that kind of art.” –Richard Hamilton
Gallery: Gagosian Gallery, 2009, Toaster Deluxe
Website: Richard Hamilton does not have a personal website.
Richard Hamilton: A Masterclass from the father of Pop Art. 13 march 2011. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/14/richard-hamilton-interview-serpentine-cooke>.
Richard Hamilton, Just What Is it that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Collage, size ?
Richard Hamilton, 8" x 12" color laser print, 1993
Richard Hamilton, Interior, 1964,
19 5/16 x 25 1/8" Print
Richard Hamilton, My Marilyn, 1965 Screenprint
20 1/4" x 24 15/16"
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