Sir Peter Thomas Blake , CBE, RDI, RA (born June 25, 1932) is a British pop artist, famous for creating the sleeve design for the album The Beatles Sgt. Lost Pepper Club Band. His other famous works include covers of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", And Live Help concert posters. Blake also designed the statue of the British Award 2012.
One of the famous British pop artists, Blake is considered a leading figure in the pop art movement. His painting center is his interest in the images of popular culture that have included collages. In 2002, he earned his knighthood at Buckingham Palace for his services on art.
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Peter Blake was born in Dartford, Kent, on June 25, 1932. He was educated at the art school of Gravesend Technical College, and the Royal College of Art.
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Careers
During the late 1950s, Blake became one of the famous British pop artists. His paintings from this time include images from advertising, entertainment in music halls, and wrestlers, often including collaborative elements. Blake belonged to a group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and held his first solo exhibition in 1960. In the exhibition of 'Young Contemporaries' in 1961 where he exhibited with David Hockney and RB Kitaj, he was first identified with the emerging British Pop. Art Change. Blake won (1961) John Moores junior award for Self Portrait with Badges . He came to wider public attention when, along with Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, he appeared in Ken Russell's "Monitor" film about pop art, Pop Goes the Easel >, broadcast. on BBC television in 1962. From 1963 Blake was represented by Robert Fraser placing him in the center of London that swung and brought him into contact with prominent figures from popular culture. His Captain Webb Matchbox piece is one of his works in the pop art movement.
Work
On the Balcony (1955-57) is a significant early work that remains an icon of British Pop Art, showing Blake's interest in combining images of pop culture with fine arts. The work, which looks like a collage but is painted entirely, shows, inter alia, a boy on the left of the composition holding ÃÆ' â € ° douard Manet's The Balcony , badges and magazines. It was inspired by paintings by HonorÃÆ'Â © Sharrer who described workers holding famous paintings, Workers and Paintings. At the "Pop Art in Changing Britain" exhibition and as reported by The Telegraph on February 21, 2018, girl with their hero, "the 1959 painting of Elvis Presley is said to have" shaped a very personal Pop Art form, nostalgic impregnated for Victoriana and the long lost entertainment world. " Blake has referred to the work of other artists many times. Another example, First Real Target (1961) standard archery target with the title written above is a game on target painting by Kenneth Noland and Jasper Johns.
Blake painted some album sleeves. He designed a sleeve for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with his wife Jann Haworth, the American-born artist he married in 1963 and divorced in 1979. The Sgt. Pepper's sleeve has become an iconic, much imitated pop artwork and Blake's most famous work. Producing collages requires the construction of a set with photos and cropped objects, such as flowers, centered on drums (sold in auctions in 2008) with album titles. Blake then complains about the one-time fee he receives for the design (£ 200), without any subsequent royalties. Blake makes arms for Band Aid's single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (1984), Paul Weller Stanley Road (1995) and Ian Dury's Brand New Boots and Panties (2001) album Blake was a Dury teacher at the Royal College of Art in mid-60 -an). She designed the arms for Pentangle's Sweet Child and The Who's
In 1969, Blake left London to live near Bath. His work changed direction to show scenes based on English Folklore and characters from Shakespeare. In the early 1970s, he created a set of watercolors to illustrate Lewis Carroll Through Looking Glass using a young artist, Celia Wanless, as a model for Alice and in 1975 he was the founder of the Rural Brotherhood. Blake moved back to London in 1979 and his work returned to the popular cultural reference before.
In 1990 and 1991, Blake painted the artwork on Eric Clapton's live album of 1991 24 Nights . A scrapbook featuring all the Blake images is then released. In January 1992, Blake appeared in BBC2 of the Canvas documentary "Arena" and painted the portrait of Kendo Nagasaki's wrestler.
In June 2006, when The Who returned to play at Leeds University 36 years after recording their live album Live at Leeds in 1970, Blake launched Live at Leeds 2 artwork to commemorate the events. Artist and The Who's Pete Townshend signed an edition that will join the gallery collection. Recently, Blake has created artist editions for the opening of the Pallant House Gallery which holds the collection of his most famous paintings. These works are a tribute to previous work on the cover of Stanley Road and Babe Rainbow prints. He designed a series of deck chairs.
In 2006, Blake designed the cover for Oasis greatest hits album Stop the Clocks . According to Blake, he selects all objects in the picture at random, but the arms of Sgt. Pepper's and Definitely Maybe are behind her mind. He claims, "It uses a mystery Definitely Maybe and runs away with it." The familiar cultural icons that can be seen on the cover include Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Charles Manson (replacing the original Marilyn Monroe image, which can not be used for legal reasons) and seven dwarves from i> Snow White and Seven Dwarfs . Blake reveals that the cover is not the original cover of the 'Grandma Takes Travel' store image on Kings Road in Chelsea, London.
Blake creates an updated version of Sgt. Pepper - with famous figures from Liverpool's history - for Liverpool's campaign to become the European Capital of Culture in 2008, and made a series of prints to celebrate Liverpool's status. In 2008, Blake painted pigs for public art show King Bladud's Pigs In Bath in Bath city.
As a fan of Chelsea Football Club, Blake designed a collage to promote the team's home kit in 2010. He also designed a shopping bag for the Lucky Brand Jeans company for the holiday season. As part of 'The Big Egg Hunt' February 2012 Sir Peter Blake designed an egg on behalf of the Dorchester Collection. Blake created a rug that flowed through the Supreme Court of England Middlesex Guild Building.
As he approached his 80th birthday, Blake undertook a project to re-create Sgt. Pepper album cover with the iconic image of British culture in her life she admired the most. He stated: "I have a very long list of people I want to enter but can not accommodate everyone - I think it shows how strong British culture and her heritage has been in the past six decades." This new version was made for a special birthday celebration of Blake's life at Wayne Hemingway's Vintage fashion designer at Boughton House, Northamptonshire in July 2012.
An exhibition was held at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to celebrate the long association of artists with music called [Peter Blake and Pop Music] (June 23 to October 7, 2012). In 2014, he showcased his inspired illustrations by Under Milk Wood at the National Museum of Cardiff. In 2016, Blake designed the artwork for studio album Eric Clapton I Still Do .
Awards
Blake became a Royal Academician in 1981, and CBE in 1983: in 2002 he was named the Knight's Scholar at Buckingham Palace for his services on art. Blake's retrospective was held at Tate in 1983 and Tate Liverpool in 2008. In February 2005, Sir Peter Blake Music Art Gallery, located at the School of Music, University of Leeds, was opened by artists. The permanent exhibit featured 20 examples of Blake album cover art, including the only public impression of his signed prints Sgt. Pepper's artwork.
In March 2011, Blake was awarded the honorary DMus of the University of Leeds, and was marked by the public opening of his artwork for the album Boogie For Stu. On July 18, 2011, Blake was awarded an honorary degree for Doctor of Art from Nottingham Trent University. In 2014 he became an honorary scholar at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Personal life
Blake married American-born Jann Haworth from 1963 to 1979, and they had two daughters, Liberty and Daisy. In 1980, Blake met fellow artist Chrissy Wilson, they married in 1987, and had a daughter, Rose.
Blake has lived in Chiswick, London, since 1967. The "spacious" studio there is a warehouse of an iron factory.
Bibliography
- 1991: 24 Nights by Eric Clapton - scrapbook by Peter Blake (Publication Event)
- 2009: Lucky Sun Old by Brian Wilson - 12 limited edition print by Peter Blake (Publication Event)
- 2011: Museum for Myself by Peter Blake - Published by the Holburne Museum to accompany the exhibition from 14 May to 4 September 2011
See also
- Middlesex Guildhall
- Sergeant. Pepper's Pepper's Lonely Band Band
- What Do Artists Do During The Day?
Note
References
- Eyes , No. 35, Vol. 9, edited by John L. Walters, Quantum Publishing, 2000.
External links
- 27 Paintings by or after Peter Blake on Art UK site
- Peter Blake's Discography at Discogs
- theartsdesk Q & amp; A: Peter Blake (November 13, 2010)
- Blake's artwork was made with Brian Wilson, "Lucky Sun Tua" 2009
- Blake at the Tate Gallery, including a biography. and pictures of some of his works
- Jonathon Jones in Blake Portrait With The Badge (1961) from The Guardian
- Peter Blake's profile by Nicholas Wroe from The Guardian
- The Brotherhood of Ruralists website
- Peter Blake's article in Art & amp; Cultural magazine
- BBC June 2002 article on Blake
- Autumn Interview 2006 in Liverpool 'Nerve' magazine
- TateShots: Sir Peter Blake and The Museum of Everything About the exhibition by Peter Blake. December 10, 2010
- TateShots: Peter Blake: A Retrospective The artist talks about his works on the retrospective Liverpool Tate. August 1, 2007
- The Oxford Times reviews Peter Blake at the Bohun Gallery
- Paul Stolper Gallery Gallery Limited Edition Gallery website
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