ArtReview

Peter Blake original prints: Father of British Pop Art

At Hemmingway Art they have a whole exhibition of Peter
Blake original prints.  The prints are from his six decade career and cover all his favourite subjects.

He is best remembered for painting covers for the stars such
as the Beatles and The Who.  The work is
nice and a bit different.  I like the one
of elephants with one hoisted in the air, amazing.

It is also said that there is a little bit of innocence in
his paintings that shines out just a bit and this gives his work the uniqueness
that is attributed Peter Blake and no other.

The exhibition is on for a few weeks if you can make it,
click the link below for posters

http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=376&awinaffid=155618&clickref=&p=

 

 

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party by Andy Warhol

This is a great picture in blue and black, guy in the background and the quote: But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party by Andy Warhol.

If you like uplifting quotes then this is a good one and you can hang it up.  Image
size 25 x 25 cm, Paper size, 36 x 28 cm, Item no, 135391.

It is a great picture and the quote is in white writing on a blue background.  Looks good,
and would suit any room.

If you would like to have a look at the picture,
click the WorldGallery icon in the sidebar.

Pop Art - Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art has exploded again.  It has become so popular in 2012/2013 that Tate modern in London is putting on a huge exhibition.  This just reflects the huge increase in interest in pop art.

The exhibition focuses on Roy Lichtenstein.  He is the man that we immediately think of when we talk about pop art.  He did a lot of cartoon paintings that became extremely popular and can now really be classed as classics in their field.

The amazing thing is that it is not just the younger generation that like pop art, a lot of more mature people have been followers of Lichtenstein.  So pop art breaks the age barriers and has a following across the board.

It is a great exhibition and a chance to see a lot of the works in this area which will please and intrigue you.  

Pop Art: Peter Blake silkscreen print of a picture, the tribute to musician Ian Dury

This is Pop Art at its best, a picture of Ian Dury in front an old second hand shop, with his son Baxter.  The shop has lots of interesting bits and pieces in its shop window and he used to like to browse through these shops and found a few treasures.

Ian Dury was an art student and his main tutor was Peter Blake.  Dury changed his mind about the direction of his career and went into music and was very successful with the band Kilburn and the Highroads.

He then formed another band, Ian Dury and The Blockheads.  Throughout his career he kept in touch with Art school friends, one of which was Peter Blake.

The silkscreen print has 26 colours in it and is 20 x 20 inches.  It is also special because Sir Peter Blake and Chris Gabrin have signed it.

To order go to www.hemingwayart.co.uk 

 

 

Soft wash stand - Pop Art, 1965 – Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg had new ideas about art and how it should be represented in the 1960s.  He produced art without the usual canvas, oils and paints.

The soft wash stand is brilliant.  A basin made of vinyl, a plug and importantly a blue square, which is the water.  It looks as though you could actually rig it up to have water flowing in it.

His ideas went further, not just using different kinds of material but inconsequential material.  And this was to highlight to the whole world that basic, common place articles such as a “light switch” ‘can’ be art. 

He is saying art is how the artist represents the work not what it is made of.  And to see such mundane items as art, opens the observer’s eyes.  We see a new way of doing things.  A new slant on life.

Pictures at World Gallery, click the link below

http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=376&awinaffid=155618&clickref=&p=