Short answers, pulled from the story.
Richard William Hamilton arrived in the world on the 24th of February 1922 within the London district of Pimlico. He left school without any formal qualifications yet managed to secure employment as an apprentice at an electrical components firm.
His 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? appeared in the catalogue for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Critics now consider it among the earliest examples of pop art because it celebrated everyday consumer objects rather than traditional subjects.
He re-enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools after World War II but faced expulsion in 1946 due to instructors claiming he was not profiting from their instruction. Loss of his student status forced Hamilton to carry out National Service before returning to art education.
This mixed-media work exploring the female nude used sculpted plastic for the breasts of the figure. Hamilton frequently incorporated materials from consumer society directly into his collages starting with Pin-up created in 1961.
The year 1981 marked the beginning of Hamilton's trilogy on Northern Ireland conflicts after watching a documentary about Blanket protests in Long Kesh Prison. His work Citizen from 1981 to 1983 portrayed IRA prisoner Hugh Rooney as Jesus with long flowing hair and a beard.
Richard Hamilton died on the 13th of September 2011 at age 89 leaving behind unfinished work called Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu comprising three large inkjet prints. These digital compositions visualized moments of crisis from Balzac's novel The Unknown Masterpiece using Photoshop images.