Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing (after Richard Hamilton) Collage

From the series "Hollywood Remakes" Collage of magazine covers The first in a series of pictures I've made taking pictures by artists whose work I admire and recreating them through the style I use in all my art. The pictures are distilled into basic blocks or areas and then separate covers are used to fill each area. The covers themselves are torn to fit the lines of the blocks and rearranged from the original cover. As in all my work, the effect of tearing and reassembling is to signify the idea of created identity and confusion of identity. Magazines present their readers with different commands about how they should live their lives - what clothes to wear, what movies to watch, what to do to get that special man in your life... The majority of magazines aimed at men particularly present ideas of masculinity that can be seen as comfortable and safe for the "traditional" male but isolating if you don't buy into this stereotype. I'm interested in how we are affected in our behaviour by external messages such as what we read in magazines, and how you create your identity as a man if you disagree with these. The reassembling of ripped pieces represents this confusion - how you are told you should feel and how you actually feel. Richard Hamilton, as I'm sure for most people, was one of my gateway drugs into the world of Pop Art. And since my pictures regularly draw on Pop imagery because of the use of magazines (and those magazines' continual use of celebrity and products), it seemed only right that his work would be the first that I would reinterpret.

Collage:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0 D in

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