Talk:Peter Blake (artist)

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Peter Blake the artist (from what i've read on wikipedia, he makes cool album covers :) should he be called (painter) or (artist)?
I don't know art... and i'm not sure what i like. --tristan

There was very little, if any, painting involved in the SPLHCB cover. Kingturtle 11:34 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, i've been looking about on the net, i have seen some stuff that looks painted (?madonna's collection), but there are photos, engravings, and collages.

So... any problems with renaming him to an artist?? (there's still no article) :)
BTW.. is there an automatic thing that enters your name and the date and time?

yes, three ~ in a rhjkdxfhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhzjsklsdf ure gayow stamps your name. a fourth in the series, if you want, stamps the time. Kingturtle or Kingturtle 11:53 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC) ;)

it's probably fair to say that most of his best known work is painting, although many of them have collage elements - "(artist)" is fine. I'll write an article on him tonight (about five hours from now) if nobody gets there before me. --Camembert 12:26 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)

Wow! awesome job, good work!

Thanks very much! I hope to add a bit more when I find my books on pop art (lord knows where they are...) --Camembert

I would call him an artist because he falls under the pop art movement which is about art. Anyway if anyone knows where i can find a really detailed biography on Peter Blake i would really like to know because i need it for coursework. If anyone knows please post the website here. Thanks. Aaron15

Visual analysis

The section that details On the balcony is a visual analysis and verging on WP:OR at least and copyvio at worst. I tried to find a source but there is a lot of confusion with mirrors, etc So I couldn't tell who's ripping off whom. It didn't sit well with the rest of the article so while I was doing the copy edit I commented it out. If no one screams I'll delete it. - brenneman ^(t)^(c) 01:20, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. In the last four and a half years, no one has defended the passage or sourced it despite the above comments. So it goes. Philip Cross (talk) 19:23, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

The following was rendered as a quote:

"A major retrospective of Blake's work was held in the Tate in 1983...(and) in 2002 Blake was awarded a knighthood for his services to art."

A check by the usual means reveals the sentence was taken from this page. I have taken appropriate steps. Philip Cross (talk) 19:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New External Link

I have added a link to a video of the artist talking about an exhibition that he curated at the Museum of Everything in 2010. He talks about his collection of curiosities, which is exhibited. I think this presents another angle on the artist, and it gives a bit of insight into his personal life. T.Broch (talk) 11:31, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a link to a video in which the artist talks us through his retrospective at Tate Liverpool. It presents the evolution of the artist's works as he sees it himself. T.Broch (talk) 13:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First Pop artist?

The last sentence under the heading "Career" states "His Captain Webb Matchbox piece predates Andy Warhol's soup tin paintings, and many in the art world consider Blake the father of the pop art movement." That raises two points: first, that Andy Warhol is not necessarily believed to be "the father of the pop art movement", so even if Blake's piece came earlier, that doesn't make Blake the first. And second, Blake's matchbox works began in 1961. But that wasn't even remotely the first work of Pop art; not even the first to employ mass-advertising motifs such as Warhol would later do with his Campbell's Soup cans. And Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and others, were all independently producing artworks that appropriated advertising images during 1961. But none of those were first; Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi began making recognizable Pop art as early as 1947. But even that isn't the first. In fact, Gerald Murphy's paintings of the 1920s (particularly "Razor" of 1924) are the true beginnings of Pop Art. Indeed, compared to Blake's "Captain Webb" matchbox of 37 years later, little difference between the two is apparent. Bricology (talk) 05:45, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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