Artist Research

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was born 24 February 1922 and is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the early works of Pop Art. He combined elements of photography and painting in his pictures. During the 1980s he studied the opportunities provided by digital media and their effect on image perception and fine arts.

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

April Greiman

April was born in 1948 and is a Graphic Designer who works with digital imaging. Layers or letters and pictures are used because she creates collage like work. April’s work is often identified for it’s 3D effect. She has experimented with Typography and image replacement and she is recognised as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology. She has created posters as well as photomontages and experimented with videos and digital photographs. She has won many awards for her work. She was one of the most influential graphic designers using the digital media.

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte was born in Lessines on 21^st Novemeber 1898-15^th August 1967. He was a Belgian surrealist artist And became well known for all the witty images he created. His work is based on ordinary objects  but presented in an unusual way to make them look surreal and different, also giving new meanings to familiar things. His paintings exclude symbols and myths; everything is visible. Magritte worked from several sources, which he repeated with variations: anatomical surprises, such as the hand whose wrist is a woman's face; the mysterious opening, where a door swings open onto an unexpected vista; metamorphic creatures, such as a stone bird flying above a rocky shoreline.

Peter Blake

Peter Thomas Blake was born 25 June 1932, in Dartford, Kent. He is an English pop artist. During the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists. His paintings included imagery from advertisements, music hall entertainment, and wrestlers, often including collaged elements. He painted collage-like pictures of pop musicians and filmstars.

David McKean

David McKean was born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician.His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art and sculpture.