Oil paint and enamel on cibachrome print on 4 canvases
Portraits
Pop Art and its Legacy
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-hamilton-1244" aria-label="More by Richard Hamilton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Richard Hamilton</a>
Four Self Portraits  05381
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstraction
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
beard
body
colour
defacement
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gestural
Hamilton, Richard
head / face
man
named individuals
non-representational
people
photographic
portraits
repetition
self-portraits
work and occupations
painting oil paint enamel cibachrome print 4 canvases
30 July 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
30 July 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
2011-07-30
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2011-07-30
British Pop Art
Loan-out
Four Self Portraits - 05.3.81
support, each: 755 × 754 × 32 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>Richard Hamilton was a key figure in the British and international Pop Art movements, as well as being one of its main theoreticians. The majority of his work is concerned with the art historical traditions in contemporary art. ‘Four Self-Portraits 05.3.81’ takes portraiture as its starting point, using new media to expand its boundaries. Instead of limiting the portrait to a single image, Hamilton uses four. In the early 1980s, the artist took Polaroids of himself and added layers of acrylic colour. After ten years, he digitally converted the photos into transparencies to be made into enlarged prints. Mounted on canvas, they epitomize the layered way in which Hamilton’s works deal with artistic media.</p>

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abstraction adults artist, painter arts and entertainment beard body colour defacement emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gestural Hamilton, Richard head / face man named individuals non-representational people photographic portraits repetition self-portraits work and occupations