Intro Quiz: Richard Hamilton (Part 1)

Video: Richard Hamilton (Part 1)

﻿Hello and welcome everyone to the next lesson in the pop art project. Today we're going to be looking at the artist, Richard Hamilton. Here is what we're going to be learning in today's lesson: how to select and cut out images from magazines and other sources, how to design your Richard Hamilton inspired collage, and how to plan the placement and attachment of your images to your collage. Let's have a quick look at Richard Hamilton, the artist we're looking at today. Richard was born in London in 1922, and he died in 2011 at the age of 89. He was part of the Pop Art genre, just like Julian Opie and Andy Warhol. He worked a lot with collage, printmaking and then from the 1980s onwards he worked with digital art. He was influenced by the artists Eduardo Paolozzi and also Marcel Duchamp. And the collages that we're going to focus on in these lessons, the next two lessons, are ones where he focused on people, consumer goods and interior decoration. So if you have a look at this example here, you can see there's a lady standing in the middle of the room and the room has been made up by adding multiple images together to create this interior space. And in the middle, if I can just show you with my cursor, you can see that they've got a television. So this is one of the consumer goods of the day that was very popular and from when it was made, which was 1964, this would have been what the latest television would have looked like. Now in today's lesson, the materials you are going to need is a sheet of A4 paper, some magazines, newspapers, you can also use packaging, anything that you're okay to start cutting up, a pair of scissors, a glue stick and I'd also like you to use your phone, or if you have a camera, 'cause you're going to be taking photos of the images you've cut up and this will be actually for the next lesson. So, pause the video, go and get all your materials and then come straight back and we shall begin. Okay. Now when you choose what images that you want to cut out, what I find is the best thing to do is to tear out the whole page rather than leave little scraps on each page that you've cut out. So, for my collage, I wanted to create some kind of landscape and using objects to depict different buildings and maybe trees, bushes, that kind of thing. So I was looking in the magazine for objects I could use for these parts and as you can see here, there's a burger that I quite liked the look of, a flower, there's a bottle, there's a watch. And there was some jewellery that I later cut up to put into my collage. In terms of cutting the images up. I find this technique works really well. So let me talk you through it. So I'm going to take my scissors and I'm going to roughly cut out the area that I would like to have for my collage. And this will make it much easier to get the really neat lines and cuts, making sure I'm as precise as possible. Like so. Okay, what I'd like you to do now is pause the video and I'd like you to go away, choose the images from your magazine and then cut them out, nice and neatly. If you have say six or seven items of about that size in the example, that would be fabulous. And I'll see you again in a minute. Welcome back. Now, as you can see, I've laid out all the images that I cut out and you'll see that I placed them on a white background, and then I took a photograph of each of these items individually. Now you're not going to need these photos for this lesson, but you will need them for the following lesson where we're going to be making a digital collage. So if you could start taking the photos of each piece individually with a really plain white background, with good even lighting, and we're not going to use them in today's lesson, but for the next one, these will be really helpful. So before you stick them all down, if you could get this done and then come straight back. So if you could pause the video. Welcome back. Now, I've got all my images all cut up and I've placed them on a sheet of paper and I'm going to start rearranging them and working out exactly where I want to place them. Now I've started with this image here because it was quite big. It already had a structure to it, which I thought was very much like a row of buildings with maybe a road in the middle sort of converging and going into the distance. I thought that would be a really great way to start it. And then these objects here, I place them so they would look like buildings, trees. Some, they, for me, those look like skyscrapers perhaps. And a really tall building there. And it's about using your imagination, thinking about not exactly what the object is, but what shape is it? And could it be passed off as a building purely by the shape? And I thought this flower would make a really lovely tree in the background. Now, the great thing about doing this step before you actually stick things down, is that for example, here I decided I didn't really like where that burger was. I thought it looked imbalanced, so I've moved it across and I've put that tub of cream in its place. So what I'd like you to do now is to rearrange your items on your sheet of paper until you're happy with how it looks. Think about the composition. Composition means where you place objects within the frame. So does it look balanced? Is there interest? Is there contrast between the colours? Have a go, pause the video, come straight back. Okay, we're now going to go to the sticking down side. What will you need to do first is if you take a photograph of how you arranged your items, and then you can refer back to that when you come to sticking things down, because you're now going to have to move everything away and I would like you to stick from the furthest item and then come forward. So if I just press play, I'll show you exactly what I mean. So I started off with that, bee pendant and I made it into the sun. The flower was the next item, 'cause that was one of the ones that was furthest away. And I kept looking at the photograph I had taken with the whole composition and worked out what item came next. So I'm working from the back to the front. Also, you will notice that I'm not applying the glue all the way to the edge. I'm just keeping it somewhere in the middle. It's just to keep it down so it doesn't fall off. And there you have it. So pause the video and come back once you're done and meet me where we do the, what went well and even better if... Okay, welcome back. And I hope that you've got a really lovely collage and that you're happy with it. Because you didn't stick things down completely. You might be able to peel items off if you feel that you want to move things around a bit more. With my one, what I was really happy with was the range of the modern day items that I included. So because I bought the magazine and created this on the same day, they were actually all items that are currently available. So it's in the same way that Richard Hamilton used items and imagery from the time that he made his collage. I quite like the colour scheme. So there's quite a lot of pastelly pinks and shocking pinks going on there. And I like how it's balanced out with the bottle of the, the green bottle on one side, and then the watch, this lovely stainless steel watch on the other. I think it really balances it out. And I also like the composition and how it has got a very sort of, a slight landscape effect to it. It looks like either buildings or structures with trees in the background. And if I were to maybe make an adjustment, if I wanted to change it slightly, I think I would possibly add some watercolour to it and maybe put a very light colour wash over that stainless steel watch. Just so it blends in a little bit. I would make it very, very subtle. But with collage, you can add to it with other art materials. That's the great thing about doing this kind of work. In the next lesson, I'm going to be showing you how to create a digital collage this time in the style of Richard Hamilton. And then I'm going to show you how to edit the digital collage to create a variety of creative effects. Now, we've come to the end of the lesson. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. It's now time to take the quiz. Let's see how much you remember from today's lesson. Good luck, and I'll see you next time.

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Richard Hamilton (Part 1)

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