Richard_Hamiltons_Just_What_Is_It...

Richard Hamiltons Just What Is It... The piece entitled Just What is it That Makes Today’s Home So Different, So Appealing by Richard Hamilton is a collage of pictures from the early to mid-50’s. It is my belief that Hamilton attempted to predict the future of America by focusing on the shallow desires of human nature: sex, wealth, and superiority. His prediction was not far off in comparison to present-day standards. In Hamilton’s collage the man and the woman seem to be his main focal points. I believe that Hamilton looked at a man’s most primitive sexual impulses and depicted the characters as he did. In the picture the woman is provocatively dressed in doilies and a lampshade. Hamilton may have been trying to express his thoughts, visually, of what men want in women: beautiful, emotionless, and excited (in the sexual sense). On the other hand, what women want in men is also what men want in themselves: big muscles and an overly large “blow pop”. Another point I think Hamilton hamilton, trying, piece, men, even, beautiful, america, women, woman, sexual, people, off, meaning, happiness, future, far, expensive, collage, big, young, world, white, whether, wealth, way, wanted, visually, visual, vacuum, upstairs, unstable, tricks, trendy, toys, today’s