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 Gravesend Technical College and School of Art, and from 1951 to 1956 at the Royal College of Art in London, where he returned as a teacher from 1964 to 1976. His student Ian Dury later dedicated to him the song Peter the Painter.
Work
Peter Blake was in the late 1950s, one of the most famous artists of the Pop Art themes of his work are idols of pop culture, the world of the circus and the associated event posters, comics and postcards. His techniques are the collage and assemblage as well as their imitation in painted form. His most famous work is the design, in collaboration with the American artist and his then- wife Jann Haworth, the record cover of the Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from 1967. 1975 he co-founded the artist group Brotherhood of Ruralists when he by the rural area of residence was in Wellow new artistic impulses and the landscape painting zuwendete in realistic painting techniques. 2004 Blake designed in collaboration with Eric Clapton, the album Clapton Me And Mr Johnson.