Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was born in London on 24 February 1922. From 1938 to 1940 before he studied painting at the Royal Academy School, he attended art classes as a teenager. From 1942 he worked as an industrial designer for four years, and then he was expelled from Royal Academy School, because he defied his teacher instructions. Between 1928 and 1951 he moved to Slade School of Art in London. After a trip to New York in 1963, Richard Hamilton began to combine elements of photography and painting in his pictures. In 1962 his first wife Terry was killed in a car crash and in part to recover from this he traveled for the first time to the United States in 1963. During the 1980s he intensively studied the opportunities provided by digital media and their effect on image perception and fine arts. I don’t really like this artist, because for me it’s just taking images from different sources and sticking them so they work well with each other to make a one piece. Richard Hamilton was my inspiration for one of the projects I had to do. I was meant to look through different magazines for images that I would use to make a collage. I found it a little bit boring, because basically what I had to do was cutting out and stacking them on one piece.