This collage by English artist Richard Hamilton was made in 1956, being the first pop art to achieve iconic status it is a very influential piece in art history. Pop art emerged in the mid 1950's in the USA. Pop art Changed tradition by asserting position that an artist may use images of mass-produced visual commodities from popular culture to produce their art works. I feel Hamilton was able to assert this acceptance in the art world of using images from popular culture at this time as it created an interesting theme and although being just images, placing them together in this way speaks out a much bigger picture throughout every detail even the outward view of the window people may overlook, a billboard poster to what looks like a Broadway musical or music event which was highly popular in the 1950's western culture. Pop art is a movement is an art movement of the twentieth century characterized by themes which this piece highlights and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. Hamilton capsulate all of these conventions through the compositions, emphasising your over analysis on the piece that stirs controversy and popping up questions with new answers is the fact that the title is a question in itself.
During the first stages of my idea development plan for our first project we were set the task of investigating selective objects that have meaning to us and interests us, so in order to spur up ideas i decided to create a collage composition similar to Hamilton’s to create interesting visuals and build-up of ideas. It was effective as I ended up using a large section of my collage trace in my final piece and i was able to source popular interesting culture on a double page spread which was ultimately Hamilton’s aim when produce this piece.
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