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Peter BlakeMarcel Duchamp's World Tour - DC Thomson Reunion at the Tower Ballroom Blackpool2015
2015
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Heralded as the ‘Godfather of Pop Art’, Sir Peter Blake was knighted in 2002 for his invaluable contribution to contemporary art.
Blake began his career creating collages from photographs, cigarette packets and matchboxes. This new approach to the creation of visual art – taking found imagery from Pop culture – was spearheaded in Britain by Blake and continues to inspire contemporary artists today.
Best known for creating the iconic cover to the Beatles’ 1967 album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, Blake continues to produce work that draws extensively on elements from popular cultures around the world.
In the early 2000s Blake made a series of paintings under the title 'Marcel Duchamp's World Tour'. These large works centred on the idea of Marcel Duchamp finding himself in unexpected situations: playing chess with Tracey Emin, or on a tour bus with the Spice Girls. The Tower Ballroom prints are an extension of this playful concept; a further incident on Duchamps’s tour of the world. Blake includes the figure of Duchamp in each piece, it is for the viewer to seek him out. The three works imagine three different and fantastical events that Duchamp attends during his stay in Blackpool. On this occasion Duchamp is an honoured guest at a reunion of DC Thomson characters.
"I saw Beano and Dandy as a child in the 1940s and the characters stayed in my memory, especially Lord Snooty and the gang. I thought it would be nice for Marcel Duchamp to meet the animals and all my chums from DC Thomson." - Sir Peter Blake
Blake's homage to Duchamp is not surprising; he paved the way for many modern and contemporary art movements including pop art, installation art and conceptual art, as well as influencing many of the YBAs (Hirst, Emin, Quinn, Turk - all of whom are friends of Blake). Duchamp's mission statement that anything an artist did could be art, has certainly been central to Blake's work and his philosophy of fine art.
The Blackpool Tower Ballroom is an iconic choice for an artist who has always been fascinated by popular leisure activities. He populates the ballroom with a magic crowd of much-loved characters including Dennis and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, Desperate Dan, Lord Snooty, the Bash Street Kids and many more.
- Creator:Peter Blake (1932, British)
- Creation Year:2015
- Dimensions:Height: 26.66 in (67.7 cm)Width: 21.07 in (53.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Norwich, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2376211871042
Peter Blake
Peter Blake is widely regarded as the godfather of British Pop art and the Young British Artists movement (YBA).
Blake created paintings, collages and prints that blend modernity and nostalgia. Though best known for designing the album cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he considered painting to be central to his oeuvre. While celebrity figures such as Marilyn Monroe informed Blake's work, folk art, fairground signs and an overall sense of nostalgia influenced his style.
In 1997, at the age of 65, Blake emotionally retired from painting and entered what he called his "late period." Afterward, he continued to work but was no longer interested in the art world’s opinion of his art, instead creating what he wanted regardless of its relation to his previous artworks over the course of his career.
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(Biography provided by Arton Contemporary)
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