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Rear View of a Female Half-Nude with Cloth (Fragment) (1913) by Egon Schiele, at the Leopold Musuem, Wien

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Leda and the Swan (after 1530), after Michelangelo, at The National Gallery

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Hylas and the Nymphs (1896), by John William Waterhouse, at the Manchester Art Gallery

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At the National Gallery to see...
Rembrandt: The Late Works

Rembrandt's 1654, A Woman bathing in a Stream
Image content [metadata]: woman, bathing, stream, hem, shift

Rembrandt's c. 1665, Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, known as 'The Jewish Bride'...
Image content [metadata]: man, holds woman bosom, marital, affection, jewish, bride

Rembrandt's 1666, Lucretia...
Image content [metadata]: dagger, breast, white, sleeves, blood

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the significance of portable knowledge in creating images and relating and making new connections on alternative archives that have been overcoming the traditional archive and notions of what is a museum.

Titian's 1520-3 Bacchus and Ariadne...
Image content [metadata]: party, stars, animals, music, goddess, wine

Velazquez's 1647-51 The Toilet of Venus...
Image content [metadata]: naked, woman, lying, bed, mirror

Turner's 1844 Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway...
Image content [metadata]: train, speed, colour, steam, bridge

and the latest acquisition
Bellows' 1912 Men of the Docks
Image content [metadata]: man, docks, winter, ny, boat, horses

Richard Hamilton

In 1957, in a letter to the architects Peter and Alison Smithson, outlining ideas for an exhibition, Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) listed the 'characteristic of Pop Art', "effectively inventing the term,"

Richard Hamilton, The Treatment Room, 1983-4

Pop Art is:
Popular (designed for a mass audience)
Transient (short-term solution)
Expendable (easily forgotten)
Low cost
Mass produced
Young (aimed at youth)
Witty
Sexy
Gimmicky
Glamorous
Big Business

Richard Hamilton, The citizen (oil paint on 2 canvases), 1981-3. © The estate of Richard Hamilton

Exhibition view: Richard Hamilton, Portrait of a woman as an artist (oil paint on digital print on canvas), 2007. © The estate of Richard Hamilton.

View of the installation: Richard Hamilton, Lobby (oil on canvas), 1985-7. © The estate of Richard Hamilton.

After a visit to Roy Lichtenstein, in 1968, Richard Hamilton "set about a project to ask artists and friends to photograph him, slowly acknowledging that each person's sensibility was surprisingly marked in the image they created, despite the apparent automatic nature of [the Polaroid] camera."

Richard Hamilton's polaroids and portraits exhibition view

Richard Hamilton, Chiara & Chair (inkjet digital print on Somerset paper, ed. 60), 2004 and Hotel du Rhône (oil pain on digital print on canvas), 2005. © The estate of Richard Hamilton.