Dimensions: image: 681 x 858 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Richard Hamilton | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is "Stage Proof 4" by Richard Hamilton. It's hard to pin down a date. I’m struck by how disjointed it feels, almost like a collage but with these blocks of pastel colors. What do you make of it? Curator: Well, isn’t it fascinating? It feels like a dream, or maybe a half-remembered advertisement. Hamilton was a master of blurring those lines, wasn’t he? The flatness, the almost clinical detachment… It’s like he's dissecting the very nature of representation. Editor: I see what you mean. It’s like he's holding up a mirror to our media-saturated world. Curator: Exactly! And asking us, "What is real, and what is just a stage proof?" Food for thought, indeed. Editor: Absolutely. It definitely gives me a new perspective on how we consume images.
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Release – Stage Proofs 1-13 and 16-19 (P02416-32; the series is incomplete) is a group of seventeen prints showing the process of building up colour to make the print Release (P04254). Each proof represents the successive addition of a screen, made from a hand-cut stencil, used to apply a particular colour. The completed print Release combines the seventeen colour screens, each used once, and the photographic black screen which has the texture of an imprint on canvas as well as the photographic halftone, used twice.
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