Sir peter thomas blake cbe rdi ra is an english pop artist best known for co creating the sleeve design for the beatles album sgt.
Collage peter blake artist.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre.
His celebrated oeuvre includes collages infused with images from popular culture often merging ads comic books and mundane mass produced cultural phenomena as well as his distinctly fantastical paintings.
Though best known for designing the album cover for the beatles sgt.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre.
Blake often painted wrestlers and some of his pieces resemble advertisements or posters.
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.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band the eighth studio album by the beatles released in 1967.
During the late 1950s blake became one of the best known british pop artists.
This painting depicts a meeting between three men.
Peter blake himself middle and british painters howard hodgkin and david hockney left and right respectively.
At the time already a renowned pop artist peter blake designed the front of the lp which included a colorful collage featuring the beatles in costume as the sgt.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band and for two of the who s albums.
Peter blake is often called the godfather of british pop art like many artists of his time he came of age in a country recovering from the war so much of his interests were drawn toward the bright and happy lifestyle that was being touted in america via a booming advertising industry utilizing groundbreaking new methods such as screen printing to create optimistic and bold renditions of life in magazines on posters and on billboards.
Widely regarded as the godfather of british pop art and the young british artists movement peter blake creates paintings collages and prints that blend modernity and nostalgia.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band standing with a group of life sized cardboard cut outs of famous people including actors sportsmen.
Blake also designed the 2012 brit award statuette.
Pepper s lonely hearts club band and for two of the who s albums.
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 began the work after he and hodgkin had visited hockney in his los angeles home in 1979 attesting to a friendship between the artists.
Arguably the most famous collage ever created by sir peter blake was the sleeve he created for sgt.
Peter blake the godfather of british pop art has long fostered a fascination with alphabets an extension of his interest in nostalgic childhood ephemera and victorian and edwardian graphic illustration and over the course of his esteemed career has used alphabetical formatting to underscore various series of compelling collages.
One of the best known british pop artists blake is considered to be a prominent figure in the pop art movement.
Sir peter blake cbe rdi ra born 1932 was one of the key members of the british pop art movement in the 1950s and 60s.
The artist s biography ansd pieces include images from published works news and advertisements and music hall entertainment.
Though best known for designing the album cover for the beatles sgt.
