Richard Hamilton

b 1922 in London (GB); studied at Westminster Technical College and St. Martin's School of Art, and from 1938–1940 painting at the Royal Academy Schools; 1941–1945 worked as a draughtsman. He studied painting at the Slade School of Art in 1948-51, starting to exhibit in 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. With Eduardo Paolozzi founding member of the Independent Group at the ICA, 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 1955 he devised and designed the exhibition «Man, Machine and Motion» at the ICA. In 1956 he made his first Pop collage 1957–1961 teacher of interior design at the Royal College of Art. In 1965 he began his reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp's «Le Grand Verre.» He organized the Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1966. Richard Hamilton, although being known as the father of Pop Art, has continuously worked with a variety of materials, technologies, and interests.