Richard Hamilton

A key figure in the British Pop Art movement, Richard Hamilton studied at St Martin’s School of Art, and later at the Royal Academy Schools. He taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, along with Eduardo Paolozzi, with whom Hamilton founded the Independent Group at the ICA.

Artworks

Works in the Tate collection

In this optically complex print, Hamilton recreates the illusion of someone (in this case, the artist) touching the surface of a mirror, and then simultaneously seeing the back of his own hand, and the frontal reflection of his face and body…

Biography and works in the Tyler Collection