Portrait of Dieter Roth
Richard Hamilton British
Not on view
Hamilton’s prints from the late 1990s are notable for their use of innovations in computer technology and colorfast digital printing inks. Hamilton collaborated with the artist Dieter Roth (1930–1998) in the late 1970s, and this likeness—using portraits Hamilton took of Roth during their collaboration, designed exclusively on Hamilton’s computer—commemorates Roth’s death. Hoping to capture his fellow artist’s complex personality, Hamilton layered several of the portrait photographs and added three floating eyes to Roth’s face in an angry red, a clairvoyant blue, and a jealous green.
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