Peter Blake (Artist)
Sir Peter Blake CBE RA (born June 25, 1932 in Dartford , Kent ) is a British artist .
Life
Peter Blake studied from 1946 to 1951 at the Gravesend Technical College and School of Art and from 1951 to 1956 at the Royal College of Art in London , where he also returned as a teacher from 1964 to 1976. His student Ian Dury later dedicated the song Peter the Painter to him.
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Peter Blake became one of the most famous Pop Art artists in the late 1950s . Topics of his work are idols of pop culture , the world of the circus and the associated event posters , comics and postcards . His techniques are collage and assemblage as well as their imitation in painted form.
His best-known work is the conception of the record cover of the Beatles album Sgt.Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band from 1967, which he developed together with his then wife Jann Haworth , an American artist, the gallery owner Robert Fraser , the photographer Michael Cooper and Al Vandenberg .
In 1975 he was a co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists artists' community , when he received new artistic impulses from the rural surroundings of his residence in Wellow and turned to landscape painting using realistic painting techniques. In 2004 Blake designed the Clapton album Me And Mr Johnson in collaboration with Eric Clapton .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Blake in the catalog of the German National Library
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- ↑ Jenni Zylka: Artist Peter Blake on Pop Art: "My art was never political" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 10, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 10, 2019]).
- ↑ http://bookofsaturday.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/5167.jpg
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| SURNAME | Blake, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dartford , Kent |