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Peter Blake (b.1932) Tate. (b Dartford, Kent, 25 June 1932). British painter, printmaker, sculptor, and designer, a leading exponent of Pop art. His use of imagery from comics, pin-up magazines, consumer goods, and advertisements captures the flavour of the times in a manner that now evokes nostalgia for the ‘swinging sixties’, as was made ...
Jun 12, 2021 · Blake, who turns 89 this month, is about to open ‘Time Traveller’, an exhibition of work old and new – and also a characteristic blend of both – at Waddington Custot gallery in London (18 June–13 August), with a new monograph Peter Blake: Collage published by Thames & Hudson to coincide with the show.
Aug 3, 2017 · Peter Blake, Jann Haworth, Photograph by Michael Cooper, Album cover for The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, NY. But he soon discovered collage, through a friend of a friend whose relatives knew artists Kurt Schwitters and Raoul Hausmann. Blake and his college roommate immediately ...
Jun 15, 2022 · Photograph: Peter Blake/Waddington Custot. So Blake was commissioned to create a cover that was truly a work of art, yet would be owned in homes all over the world: pop art as popular art.
Jun 25, 2022 · A portrait of Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis by English pop artist Sir Peter Blake has been unveiled at the music festival.. The portrait, unveiled on Blake’s 90th birthday, was ...
Mar 24, 2024 · There are 50,000 items in Sir Peter Blake's studio, including a fleet of model galleons whose masts are a metre tall. He bought them at his local auction house, apparently because he felt sorry ...
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