Peter Blake Artwork
This painting depicts a meeting between three men.
Peter blake artwork. Though best known for designing the album cover for the beatles sgt. Alongside david hockney patrick caulfield and richard hamilton blake sourced imagery from popular culture to produce colorful and distinctly graphic works. Sir peter blake s work reflects his fascination with the world of popular culture and the beauty found in everyday objects and surroundings. Blake began the work after he and hodgkin had visited hockney in his los angeles home in 1979 attesting to a friendship between the artists.
His works often feature found printed materials such as photographs comic strips or advertising texts combined with bold geometric patterns and the use of primary colours. Peter blake cbe rdi ra is a contemporary british artist known for his association with the pop art movement. Pepper s lonely hearts club band he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre. Peter blake himself middle and british painters howard hodgkin and david hockney left and right respectively.
Peter blake is often called the godfather of british pop art like many artists of his time he came of age in a country recovering from the war so much of his interests were drawn toward the bright and happy lifestyle that was being touted in america via a booming advertising industry utilizing groundbreaking new methods such as screen printing to create optimistic and bold renditions of life in magazines on posters and on billboards.