Richard Hamilton reigned at the forefront of British art from the early 1950s and achieved his status as an integral founding figure of the international Pop Art movement in the 60s, outliving many of his international contemporaries such as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Hamilton is best known not only for the pivotal role he played in the birth of Pop with his Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition of 1956, but for his era-defining depictions of Mick Jagger in the iconic Swingeing London 67 (f), the countless album covers he created for bands such as The Beatles and the plethora of multimedia portraits he produced of other celebrities like Bing Crosby and Marilyn Monroe.

The once-groundbreaking movement of Pop Art may seem pastiche and almost mainstream in today’s world, but a sudden resurgence of interest into the importance of his often overlooked works has resulted in a long overdue retrospective at Tate Modern, crowning him one of the most influential British artists of the 20th-century.

You can also see rare archival works by Richard Hamilton as part of the ICA’s new exhibition ICA Off-Site: Dover Street Market, occupying over six floors of Rei Kawakubo’s trailblazing store which incredibly used to be their former London site.

Richard Hamilton
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
13 February – 26 May 2014
Adult £14.50 (without donation £13.10), Concession £12.50 (without donation £11.30)

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