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.
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