Peter Phillips (artist)
Peter Phillips (born May 21, 1939 in Birmingham ) is a British pop artist , painter , graphic artist and filmmaker . He is one of the co-founders of British Pop Art .
Life
Peter Phillips attended the Mosely Rood Secondary School of Art in Birmingham from 1953 to 1955 and the Birmingham College of Art from 1955 to 1959 . In 1959 he traveled to Paris and Italy , where he recorded artistic impressions. From 1959 he participated in exhibitions in the London RBA Galleries . He then studied from 1959 to 1962 at the Royal College of Art in London. He took part in the Young Contemporaries Exhibition of 1961, which made the Royal College students around David Hockney , RB Kitaj , Allen Jones , Derek Boshier , and Patrick Caulfield internationally known. At college he discovered reproductions by the American artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg , which made a lasting impression on him. Peter Phillips was initially very much oriented towards American civilization and reflected its commercial iconography and the aggressiveness of advertising in dynamic image montages. From 1962 to 1969 he taught at the Country College of Art and the Birmingham College of Art . In 1963 he took part in the Paris Biennale, in 1964 in the Pop Art exhibitions in The Hague , Vienna and Berlin .
From 1964 to 1966 he lived in New York and traveled with his friend Allen Jones through the USA. In 1965 Phillips exhibited for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery in New York . From 1968 to 1969 he was visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . He then traveled through Africa, the Far East and again through the USA. In 1972, the work of Peter Phillips was recognized by retrospectives at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster and the London Tate Gallery . In 1981 Peter Phillips toured Australia . From 1982 to 1983 the travel impressions were followed by retrospectives in six English museums and exhibition institutions.
He then worked as a filmmaker and now lives in Mallorca .
Works in museums (selection)
- Lion Verus Eagles 1962, Museum of Hedendaagse Art in Ghent
- Custon Painting No. 5 1965, Museum Zurich
literature
- Tilman Osterwold: Pop Art. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8228-0394-4 , pp. 74, 75 u. P. 234.
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| SURNAME | Phillips, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop art artist, painter, printmaker and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |