Swingeing London,  featuring Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser during arrest for heroin possession in 1967



My Marilyn, screen print. 1965




Trafalgar Square, 1965-67, oil & photographs on wood.




Study for a fashion plate, 1969, sketch & study.




Soft pink landscape, 1980



Self Portrait in cracked mirror 1985


There is just a taster of some of his work, but he is really well worth a look, I think it's great and was gutsy that he was one of the artists that brought Fine Art and Popular Culture together aka Elvis and Picasso. Good job Mr Hamilton.... :-)

Bullet Points

Here are some bullet points on Hamilton, I said I wouldn't bore you with aload of spiel about him.

• 24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011
• British painter and collage artist
• St Martins Art College-(first formal class)/Royal Academy Schools/Slade School of Art
• 1940-45 (technical draughts man) learned engineering and tool design
•  Early work was much influenced by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• Member of the Independent Group of Artists
• Pop Art
• Designed the sleeve of the Beatles "White" Album
• Important quote "Pop Art is popular (designed for a mass audience) transient-(short term solution), expenable (easily forgotten), low cost, mass produced, young (aimed at the youth), witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamourous, big business."
• Before he passed away he was working on an exhibition for the National Gallery.

 

Here is my presentation sheet on Richard Hamilton, there he is in the middle handsome man isn't he??? ;-)

 

 

Oh Oh!!!!

Did I mention that I have to stand up in front of class again and give a presentation on my researched artist (Richard Hamilton)...........Oh Lordy!!! Here we go again!!!! Breathe!!!

Ah sure it will be only greeeaassshhhh!!!!!

Richard Hamilton (Artist Research)

So I got Richard Hamilton as my Artist to research, I had heard of the name before but it wasn't ringing alarm bells..... Anyway when I was researching him, some of his works looked familiar 
 
like this collage above "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" 1956, it is said to be one of the first early works of Pop Culture.

Here is a link that just skims on the biography of Hamilton.

 http://www.hamilton-richard.com/

Here are a couple of links about Mind Maps which I came across when I was researching they are quite interesting. Tony Buzan also has lots of books on Mind Mapping if you are interested in reading up about it. One of the links is controversial if Tony Buzan invented the mind map, it goes all the way back according to this site to Leonardo Da Vinci, sure why does't that surprise us. He is a legend after all. :-)

http://www.michaelonmindmapping.com/blog/mind-map/tony-buzan-did-not-invent-mind-mapping/

http://www.mindmaps.net/history-of-mind-maps

So my first exercise was on Mind Mapping. I had to Mind Map why I wanted to study Art & Design, and get up in front of the class and explain my Mind Map. To put it mildly I was pooping myself at the thought of getting up in front of the class, public speaking wouldn't be one of my strong points to say the least. Verbal constipation ALERT!!!! Anywhhooooo!!!! I got through it with my stomach doing somersaults. It was the best feeling having it over with. I'll pop up a photo of it now, there is a few reasons why I want to study Art & Design and I will go through them on the Mind Map. :-)

 

First of all please excuse the vommit of colour on the page, I got a tad bit excited, it was the first exercise we had to do so I was like.....Where are my COLOURS???

 

A lot of what you see in the Mind Map is quite self-explanatory. If  you have any questions, feel free to ask them, I won't bite I promise.

 

Howdy Doody!!!

Hi there my name is Lisa, I'm a mature student studying BA Art & Design and I have to set up a blog for our learning process, at first I was like oh no this will be a pain in the holey, hole......but I can see how this can benefit us, especailly living in such a digital world. So bear with me as it's my first blog, hope I don't bore you too much... :-)