Peter Blake

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Peter Blake

British artist

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Pop art
Pop art in Britain
…of Art in London, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Richard Smith, and Joe Tilson. Blake—who was perhaps best known for helping design one of the iconic images of British Pop art, the cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)—often made collage-based paintings that included mass-produced objects,…
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…of Art in London, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Richard Smith, and Joe Tilson. Blake—who was perhaps best known for helping design one of the iconic images of British Pop art, the cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)—often made collage-based paintings that included mass-produced objects,…
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Western painting
Pop art in Britain and the United States: the 1960s
…whom had been tutored by Peter Blake, an artist who helped design one of the iconic images of British Pop art: the cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band record album of 1967. The second generation included David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, and the American-born R.B. Kitaj
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…whom had been tutored by Peter Blake, an artist who helped design one of the iconic images of British Pop art: the cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band record album of 1967. The second generation included David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, and the American-born R.B. Kitaj
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