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Richard Hamilton
Born in 1922 in London. In 1934 he
attended evening classes in art. In 1936 he worked in the publicity
department of an electrical company. He studied at Westminster
Technical College and St. Martin's School of Art. In 1937 he worked
in the publicity department of the Reimann Studios. From 1938
to 1940 he studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools. He enrolled
for a course in technical drawing and worked as a draughtsman
from 1941 to 1945. He was readmitted to the Royal Academy Schools
in 1946 but was expelled in the same year as a result of apparently
unsatisfactory work. He began his National Service. In 1947 he
married Terry O'Reilly. He studied painting at the Slade School
of Art in 1948-51. His etchings from this period were exhibited
at his first one-man exhibition at Gimpel Fils, 1950. The first
exhibition he designed himself was Growth and Form at the ICA,
London, 1951. In 1952 he became a teacher of silver work, typography
and industrial design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
One of his colleagues there was Eduardo Paolozzi, with whom Hamilton
was a founder member of the Independent Group at the ICA. This
was a group of artists and intellectuals who met to discuss cultural
change in the age of technology. In 1953 he became a lecturer
in the Fine Art Department at the King's College in the University
of Durham. In this post he worked with Victor Pasmore and taught
a course in basic design which was also attended by art students.
In 1955 he exhibited his paintings at the Hanover Gallery, London.
His paintings at this time were influenced by Cubism. In the same
year he devised and designed the exhibition Man, Machine and Motion
at the ICA. In 1956 he made his first Pop collage as a design
for the poster and catalog of the exhibition This Is Tomorrow
at the Whitechapel Gallery, which he had helped to organize with
other members of the Independent Group. From 1957 to 1961 he taught
interior design at the Royal College of Art. In 1960 he was awarded
the William and Norma Copley Foundation Prize for Painting. He
also published a typographical version of Marcel Duchamp's Green
Box. His wife died in a car accident in 1962. In 1963 he visited
USA for the first time. In 1965 he began his reconstruction of
Marcel Duchamp's Le Grand Verre. He organized the Duchamp retrospective
at the Tate Gallery in 1966. His works on the theme of the Guggenheim
Museum were also shown at the Robert Fraser Gallery. In 1969 he
helped to make a film of his work for the Arts Council. In 1970
he showed his Cosmetic Studies. He was awarded the Talins Prize
International, Amsterdam, 1970. In 1977 and 1978 he collaborated
with Dieter Roth at Cadaqués. He was given his first comprehensive
retrospective exhibition in 1979 at the Tate Gallery, also shown
at the Kunsthalle, Berne. In 1974 he had retrospectives at the
Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Städtische Galerie, Munich,
and the Kunsthalle, Tübingen. In 1982 his writings, notes
and documents were published by Thames and Hudson, London.
Castello di Banfi, Summus 1998,
13%
The Brunello variety to give body and acidity, Cabernet Sauvignon
for the structure and concentration and Syrah for the elegance,
the spiciness and the fruitiness. These three varieties, separately
vinified for a year in barriques, are the constituents of Summus.
The very skilful blending of the three will spend another 6 months
in wood and two years in the bottle.
The very intense ruby colour shows already its power. Chocolate,
ripe forest fruit, vanilla and some elegant vegetal notes make
the nose of this wine. The structured and yet silky tannins are
very well integrated with a lovely acidity, while black berries
and some sweet spices take you to a very complex and lingering
end.
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