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The artist's job has always been that of selecting and reassembling elements from a changing, chaotic experience of the world. In creating order, coherence and stability from the flux of life, the artist produces an icon – an epiphany: the painter has to fix, formalize, a momentary enlightenment. Richard Hamilton, the herald of Pop art, seized on images that defined the times. One of the momentous events of 1993 yielded a picture that resonated. On 19 January 1993, the Japanese Imperial Palace announced the engagement of The Crown Prince of Japan, heir to the oldest ruling dynasty in the world, to Masako Owada, the daughter of a high level diplomat. Their six-year courtship had been a media obsession and their wedding, on 9 June 1993, was to attract a global audience of around half a billion people.
Title
Testament
Date
1993
Medium
oil on Cibachrome on canvas
Measurements
H 82 x W 60 cm
Accession number
P6222
Acquisition method
purchased from Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1994
Work type
Painting
British Council Collection
Visual Arts, Arts Group, 10 Spring Gardens, London, Greater London SW1A 2BN England
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