Artwork Peter Blake Pop Art

Sir peter thomas blake cbe rdi ra born 25 june 1932 is an english pop artist best known for co creating the sleeve design for the beatles album sgt.

Artwork peter blake pop art.

The most famous example of this crossing of genres can be seen in the work he produced for the beatles seminal sgt. The infiltration of popular culture and most specifically pop music into the art world scene was a common motif in blake s work. Upcoming fair the armory show 2020 john m. Fine art design exhibitions art fairs press 25 years contact events year in review current exhibit hadi tabatabai black white sometimes blue.

Pepper s lonely hearts club band album puck more in pop art. 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. Peter blake cbe rdi ra is a contemporary british artist known for his association with the pop art movement. Though best known for designing the album cover for the beatles sgt.

He is perhaps best known for creating the album cover for the beatles s sgt pepper s lonely hearts club band in 1967. 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. Producing the collage necessitated the construction of a set with cut out photographs and objects such as flowers centred on a drum sold in auction in 2008 with the title of the album. 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 he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre. 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. 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 scientists and gurus.

Though best known for designing the album cover for the beatles sgt. Pepper s lonely hearts club band album cover. Important art artworks analysis by peter blake including. Pepper s lonely hearts club band he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre while celebrity figures inform his work folk art.

Peter blake gallery. Sir peter thomas blake born 25 june 1932 is an english pop artist best known for co creating the sleeve design for the beatles album sgt. Pepper s sleeve has become an iconic work of pop art much imitated and blake s best known work. Alongside david hockney patrick caulfield and richard hamilton blake sourced imagery from popular culture to produce colorful and distinctly graphic works.