British Pop Artist Richard Hamilton dies at 89

Home > Entertainment > K-pop

print dictionary print

British Pop Artist Richard Hamilton dies at 89

테스트

LONDON - British Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton, who depicted Tony Blair as a cowboy and designed a Beatles album cover, has died. He was 89.

The Gagosian Gallery, which represents Hamilton, said the artist died early Tuesday at an undisclosed location in Britain. It did not give the cause of death.

The gallery said that with his death, “the art world has lost one of its leading figures.” It said Hamilton’s influence on younger artists was “immeasurable.”

Hamilton was often called the “Father of Pop Art” - Britain’s answer to Andy Warhol - and was credited with coining the name for a movement marked by its ironic and iconic use of commercial and pop-culture imagery.

Born in London in 1922, Hamilton made his name in the ’50s with “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” A collage showing a physically idealized naked couple - the man holding a red lollipop marked “Pop” - in a product-strewn home, it was a seminal work of Pop Art.

For half a century Hamilton produced images that were striking and often political, from Mick Jagger in handcuffs after a drug raid to portraits of prison protesters in Northern Ireland to an image of former British leader Blair as a cowboy in the piece “Shock and Awe” (2007).

One of his best-known works is the antithesis of Pop Art’s colorful cacophony: the monochrome cover of The Beatles’ “White Album,” a simple white square embossed with the band’s name. Hamilton also designed the collage-style poster that came with the album.

The Gagosian Gallery said that Hamilton had been working on a major retrospective that will travel to Los Angeles, Philadelphia, London and Madrid in 2013-14.

He is survived by his wife, Rita Donagh, and son Rod.


AP


한글 관련 기사 [중앙일보]

‘팝아트의 아버지’ 영국 리처드 해밀턴 별세

‘팝아트의 아버지’로 불리는 영국의 리처드 해밀턴(Richard Hamilton·사진)이 13일(현지시간) 별세했다. 89세.

지병을 앓고 있었던 것으로 추정되지만, 소식을 전한 영국 런던의 가고시안 갤러리는 그가 어디에서 어떤 이유로 별세했는지 자세히 언급하지 않았다.

 1922년 런던에서 태어난 해밀턴은 로열 아카데미와 슬레이드 스쿨에서 미술을 배웠다. 56년 콜라주 ‘오늘의 가정을 그토록 색다르고 멋지게 만드는 것은 무엇인가(Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing)’로 팝아트 시대를 열었다. ‘대중미술(popular art)’을 줄여 부른 팝아트는 60년대 초 앤디 워홀·로이 리히텐슈타인 등 미국 작가들로 이어졌다.

 68년에는 당시 세계적 인기를 끌던 밴드 비틀스의 ‘화이트 앨범’ 표지를 디자인해 화제를 모으기도 했다. 자본주의 사회의 소비 지상주의를 풍자한 작품은 정치인들을 비꼬는 내용으로 이어졌다.

2003년 서방군의 이라크 바그다드 대공습에서 영감을 얻어 토니 블레어 전 영국 총리가 카우보이 셔츠를 입고 총을 들고 있는 모습을 담아 ‘충격과 공포(Shock and Awe, 2007~2008)’라는 제목을 붙이기도 했다.
Log in to Twitter or Facebook account to connect
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
help-image Social comment?
s
lock icon

To write comments, please log in to one of the accounts.

Standards Board Policy (0/250자)