Monday, October 29, 2018

Artist of the day, October 29: Peter Blake, British painter, artist (Pop art)


Sir Peter Thomas Blake (1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other best known works include the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette.

One of the best known British pop artists, Blake is considered to be a prominent figure in the pop art movement. Central to his paintings are his interest in images from popular culture which have infused his collages. In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his services to art.

Blake's work represents a decidedly British condition of searching for a better present or future. In his Pop art, this search led to the idealism seen in American advertisements and pop culture. In his later Ruralist works, this is shown through nostalgic depictions of a more conservative and Victorian past, or in the fantasy worlds of elves and fairy tales. In his landscape works this is found in the quieter, gentler pastures of life in the countryside.

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Mr Peter Blake

1956, On the Balcony

1959, Girlie Door

1959, The Fine Art Bit


1961, Self-Portrait with Badges

1961, The First Real Target

1961, Tuesday

1962, The Toy Shop

1964, Beach Boys

1965, Portrait of David Hockney in a Hollywood Spanish Interior

1965, The Masked Zebra Kid

1967 Album cover for The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1968 Pentangle "Sweet Child"

1969, Leo 79

1969, Leo 139

1969, Leo 153

1970, It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know’, said the Rose

1970, "Well, this is grand!" said Alice

1971, Costume Life Drawing

1972, Penny Black

1972, Pretty Boy Michaelangelo

1972, Studio Tack-Board

1974, Girl in a Poppy Field

1981, Illustration to the cover of ‘Face Dances’

1981, The Meeting’ or ‘Have a Nice Day, Mr Hockney’

2006, John Peel

2013, London, River Thames: Regatta

Baron Adolf Kaiser

Dazzle Ship commissions

Gettin In Over My Head

Got A Girl


Our fans

Cooking

Bentley

Manhattan Boogie Woogie

Marilyn Monroe, Black

London Olympics

Paul Weller's Stanley Road
















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