cloudstomper: artist research: Richard Hamilton

European 'pop artist' contemporary of David Hockney, trained at the Slade after working in advertising in the 1940s.
Much influenced by Paolozzi, a scottish artist of Italian descent, himself influenced by american artists defying stylistic conventions such as Pollock and Dubuffet.
Hamilton liked the use of collage, as an antithesis to painterly, time consuming art, he named the collage as an 'instant art form'.
Using pages from magazines and catalogues, combining images to produce surreal stylistic visuals that challenged the idea of 'high' art.
Social progressive change, especially across the Atlantic was important during the times. Europe was developing it's own pop culture, with the Beatles (and their Peter Blake designed album covers. Over the pond, Jasper Johns, then later Roy Lichtenstein would be revolutionising pop art culture in turn.
One of the other greats that influenced Hamilton was Duchamp, whom he met and befriended after travelling to the States after Hamilton's wife died in the 1960s.

i came across Richard Hamiltons works when looking for collage/representations in art of female faces.
Looking for similar more modern takes after Man Rays disturbing images of obscuring the eyes on portrait sitters faces. This old world objectification and fetishisation of the female sitter sat alongside what I've been researching for Freudian symbolism for the Edwardian cloakroom.