Richard Hamilton + Architecture

                   

"Interiors are a set of anachronisms; a museum, with the lingering residues of decorative styles that an inhabited space collects."
                                                                                                                         -Richard Hamilton


Hamilton was an english painter and collage artist whose projects are revered as some of the earliest works of Pop Art. His work is signified by the treatment of the classical and historical in conjunction with the contemporary. He saw interiors not as simply existing, but a sort of hodgepodge of space and time. He chose to explore the realm of architecture not through 3-D represenations but through a diversity of artistic languages, which he believed was the only way to analyze the theme of interior space. Hamilton utilized the mixture of stylized cartoon, relief sculpture photograph, paint, and screen print to create images that are both "taudry yet extraodinarily sophisticated." The collages are a spatial representations of the desires, values, expectations and consumerist attitudes throughout the late 1950's and 1960's. Hamilton focused on the conglomeration of objects from different temporal occurences and their assertions in one space. They are about the relationship between the object and the room.