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 |
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| 1956, On the Balcony |
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| 1959, Girlie Door |
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| 1959, The Fine Art Bit |
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| 1961, Self-Portrait with Badges |
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| 1961, The First Real Target |
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| 1961, Tuesday |
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| 1962, The Toy Shop |
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| 1964, Beach Boys |
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| 1965, Portrait of David Hockney in a Hollywood Spanish Interior |
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| 1965, The Masked Zebra Kid |
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| 1967 Album cover for The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
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| 1968 Pentangle "Sweet Child" |
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| 1969, Leo 79 |
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| 1969, Leo 139 |
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| 1969, Leo 153 |
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| 1970, It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know’, said the Rose |
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| 1970, "Well, this is grand!" said Alice |
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| 1971, Costume Life Drawing |
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| 1972, Penny Black |
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| 1972, Pretty Boy Michaelangelo |
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| 1972, Studio Tack-Board |
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| 1974, Girl in a Poppy Field |
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| 1981, Illustration to the cover of ‘Face Dances’ |
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| 1981, The Meeting’ or ‘Have a Nice Day, Mr Hockney’ |
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| 2006, John Peel |
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| 2013, London, River Thames: Regatta |
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| Baron Adolf Kaiser |
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| Dazzle Ship commissions |
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| Gettin In Over My Head |
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| Got A Girl |
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| Our fans |
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| Cooking |
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| Bentley |
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| Manhattan Boogie Woogie |
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| Marilyn Monroe, Black |
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| London Olympics |
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| Paul Weller's Stanley Road |
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| Sources (100) of Pop Art |
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| Sources of Pop Art III |
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| Sources of Pop Art IV |
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| Sources of Pop Art V |
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| Sources of Pop Art VI |
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| Sources of Pop Art VII |
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| The Second Real Target 25 Years Later |
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| USA Series: Pacific Park |
