Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Richard Hamilton is an artist who I fell in love with recently. He is a painter and collage artist most famously known for his piece 'Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?' which was produced for the 'This Is Tomorrow' exhibition of the Independent Group in London, of which critics and historians noted to be one of the early works of Pop Art, and this was the piece that first attracted me. I'm not much of a fan of his early more abstract work but anything from 1957 is amazing!

The pieces that he is most notable for, and the ones that I particularly like are his 'Interior' designs and collages. He contrasts elaborate decoration with uncluttered paints; clashing styles. His definition of Pop Art in 1957 was - "Pop Art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business" - stressing its everyday, commonplace values. For me; his photos speak for themselves and he is really inspiring at this point of my life, I thought I'd share this with the world (meaning anyone that reads this!)