Fs this is annoying. The more I find out about Peter Blake the less I'm interested.

Also someone we've read has said he was influenced by Jasper Johns target, somewhere else says it was the other way around lol..

I think Rauschenberg and Lichtenstein were both influences on Blake to a certain extent.

This websites got the answer to almost all of the questions on the brief! Have a look at this guys and reference it! :)


http://www.slideshare.net/nfrowotham/critical-studies-peter-blake

Here are the Questions Stuart!

1. Why have I chosen this artwork?
2. How would I categorise/describe the work (taxonomies)
3. How has time-frame of my chosen decade impacted with technological innovation in terms of production and dissemination?
4. In terms of economic and social change, what political and philosophical points of view were emerging that time?does my artwork respond to ,or reflect these in any way?
5. In terms of codes and communication, how is the artwork intended to be read and who is it for?
6. Have i writen 200 words for each of these categories?

I like this bit...

The 78-year-old is busy hanging his latest show, 60 Years of Printmaking, yet there is surprisingly little material from his 1960s heyday. "I look back with surprise that I did so few prints in the early days," he says. "I think in the Sixties, when most of my contemporaries were making a lot of prints, like [David] Hockney and [RB] Kitaj, on some kind of odd principle I didn't make any.It was a curious kind of moral stand, something to do with commercialism and just making things to be sold, whereas now I'm much happier to embrace all of that."

"Fucking hell. Commercialism is so much worse today that it was in the 60s and now he thinks it's ok to just conform and let go of his "morals" on the idea. I guess that's why his new art is full of advertisements throughout the decades, and he sells it left, right and centre."

Check this site out.

You can zoom in real close and see some amazing detail, check out your favourite painting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThNZH5Q1yY&feature=player_embedded#at=30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYXdEUB0VgQ&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGYuE5KJhfg&playnext=1&list=PLEFCF9F5BC6E46AF1

I've checked out Tate Modern for some of Blake's work but can't find any, can someone have a go and see if you can.

Cheers

www.googleartproject.com/ -Cached

Guys here is some refs to artists influenced by his work, its on the sheets i printed for you.

The Telegraph

Sir Peter Blake: why i chose Pop over pot.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7908366/Sir-Peter-Blake-why-I-chose-Pop-over-pot.html

Blake is the self-proclaimed founding father of Pop Art: his Captain Webb matchbox preceded Andy Warhol's Brillo Pad boxes and Campbell's soup cans, and he was painting comics before Roy Lichenstein, and flags and targets before Jasper Johns. Today he is sporting target cufflinks, as if to make the point. Indeed, he's become something of a mentor to the crop of YBAs who championed - and borrowed - from his work as they emerged in the 1990s, including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, both of whom are now close friends.

When Blake turned 65 he announced his retirement from "the nasty part of the art world". He says: "It was just a concept, but I retired from jealousy, avarice, spitefulness. It was almost like embracing a new religion."

He gives his silent feud with Warhol as an example of the "nasty part" of art that he was happy to let go. "People have said he was my copycat, but I've never said it.

Hello group! :) is everyone happy with our powerpoint ??well i hope so. Has anyone found a good website on influences??!!!for our last slide show?!i couldnt get any so far but am still looking.

peter blake

Sir Peter Blake RA is an English artist often referred to as the Godfather of British Pop Art, best known for his limited edition prints and the design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Born in Dartford, Kent, Blake studied at Gravesend School of Art before being accepted into the prestigious Royal College of Art in London. He graduated in 1956, received a Leverhulme Research Award to study popular art, and travelled extensively, drawing inspiration as he roamed. Sir Peter Blake's fondness for popular culture can be clearly seen in much of his eclectic collages and silk screen prints with images of Marilyn Monroe mixing with Mona Lisa.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2006/nov/22/whypeterblakestillmatters1

THATS ME DONE WITH MY PART I SUPPOSE! :D 

Another intresting website that i found relating socials valueshttp://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-global/w-news/w-news-national_trust_does_glastonbury/w-news-peter-blake-glasto.htm

Have a look at this guys and let me know what you think? its about Peter Blake's gallery in Cali
 http://www.peterblakegallery.com/About.cfm

I forgot which research I'm meant to be doing lol. And has anyone found that image again but a good size one and with the full amount of images? It is not coming up on google at all :/.