Background
Richard Hamilton was born on February 24, 1922 in London, in the family of Peter and Constance Hamilton.
Richard Hamilton was born on February 24, 1922 in London, in the family of Peter and Constance Hamilton.
Firstly, Richard left school with no formal qualifications. Then Richard began to do painting at evening classes at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Westminster School of Art. In 1938, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts.
Hamilton began exhibiting his work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, where he also produced posters and leaflets. He taught at the Central School of Art and Design from 1952 until 1966. The success of "This Is Tomorrow" secured Hamilton further teaching assignments in particular at the Royal College of Art from 1957 to 1961.
From the mid-1960s, Hamilton was represented by Robert Fraser and even produced a series of prints, "Swingeing London", based on Fraser's arrest, along with Mick Jagger, for possession of drugs. During the 1970s, Richard Hamilton enjoyed international acclaim with a number of major exhibitions being organised of his work. Hamilton realised a series of projects that blurred the boundaries between artwork and product design including a painting that incorporated a state-of-the-art radio receiver and the casing of a Dataindustrier AB computer. From the late 1970s Hamilton’s activity was concentrated largely on investigations of printmaking processes, often in unusual and complex combinations. From the late 1940s Richard Hamilton was engaged with a project to produce a suite of illustrations for James Joyce's "Ulysses." A book of Hamilton's illustrations was published simultaneously, with text by Stephen Coppel.
Richard's 1955 exhibition "Man, Machine and Motion" and his 1956 collage "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?", produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, are extremely famous for being considered by critics and historians to be among the earliest works of pop art.
Desk
Finn MacCool
Self-portrait with yellow
Pin-up
A Languid Floating Flower
Ghosts of UFA
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Portrait of Hugh Gaitskill as a Famous Monster of Filmland
Trichromatic Flower Piece
Marcel Duchamp
Countdown
The Orangeman
Derek Jarman
Four Self-Portraits 05.3.81
Palindrome
My Marilyn
Self-portrait in a cracked mirror
The heaventree of stars
Glorious Techniculture
The Citizen
Lobby
Ireland a Nation
Maps of Palestine
Treatment room
Soft Blue Landscape
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different
Archive II
The Beatles
He foresaw his pale body
Marconi & Son
Swingeing London 67
The Solomon R. Guggenheim - Architect's visual
Bronze by Gold
Study for a Fashion plate
Leopold Bloom
Interior
Fashion plate
Swingeing London 67
Soft Pink Landscape
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
War Games
TiT
A dedicated follower of fashion
Picasso's meninas
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Hers Is A Lush Situation
Flower Piece I
Chiara & chair
The marriage
I'm dreaming of a black Christmas
A Beautiful Little Shit for Dieter
Esquisse
The State
A mirrorical return
Epiphany
Mother and Child
Interior II
Shock and Awe
A Postal Card - For Mother (for S.M.S. 1)
Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Men's Wear and Accessories
Self-Portrait
whitley bay
Bathers (A)
Patricia Knight II
Portrait of Dieter Roth
In 1947 Richard married Terry O’Reilly, but he died in 1962. Then he married Rita Donagh in 1991. He had two children from the first marriage: one son and one daughter.
