inspiring artists

                                                                Sir Peter Blake

Peter graduated from the royal college of art in 1956 having also completed his national service. He received the levehulme research award ti study popular art whilst travelling around Europe. As well as working and exhibiting his art work he has also spent several years teaching in various London art schools. He has been doing one man shows since the 70s exhibiting his art work. In 2002 Peter Blake received a knighthood. Sir Peter Blake's work has been heavily influenced by popular culture and what is going on in the world at the time of the art being made. Film,TV,Radio and Music are his main inspirations behind his art work. The most common thing about Peter Blake's work is that they are dominated by bright colours every single part is filled by a bright eye catching colour. Also there is no empty spaces either everything is taken up either by a colour or a design or logo. I love Sir Peter Blake's work because it is fun,crazy and beautiful. I really like how the work he does is effected by what is going on in the world at the time. When i look at his work it makes me smile as even if the theme isn't always positive the colours manage to add a sense of beauty to the art work.

                                       

This image is a example of Peter Blake work as you can see it is very typical of a peter Blake art piece with a explosion of colour all over the art. You can see a sense of realism in the form of the woman possibly posing like that in real life while being sketched around to create a life like design. Also in the art around the woman waist is a band saying London which gives you more information about the story. The techniques that have been used in this piece includes bright fun colours that have been used as borders to surround the portrait in the middle this is to give this art piece the resemblance of a physical frame. The 3d text is to give it the fun crazy design that Peter blake is known for.

                                                                     Jeff Fisher
Jeff Fisher is an Australian artist who studied Fine art and film at Preston institute of technology in the 1970s. He stayed at London for a while before settling down in France in 1993. The main designs Jeff fisher does is Book designs creating art for Book covers. His main areas that he exhibits his work in is London and Paris. His main in influences and inspirations are Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Rick Tharp, Saul Bass and Nigel Holmes. Jeff fishers style is very different to that of Peter Blake as there is a much more limited colour palette with some art pieces having barely any colour at all. Also the themes are not based on pop culture at all but rather based on events that have happened in his life or relate to his views. They are often less positive too sometimes giving a moody feel most likely due to the colour scheme used. I like his designs because of how complex they can be and how it leaves you to work out the meaning for yourself.

This art piece is called Jeff's brain and as you can see there is a very small amount of colour used with only 3 colours used white,black and grey. There is big bald writing at the bottom which gives the title of the art piece. You can see a unique design through the merger of different shapes and patterns. The background is very plain so that you do not get distracted and can focus on the main part of the image.

Lou Beach

Lou Beach is a American illustrator who spent much of his youth in New York. He spent much of his time riding bikes and creating snow forts. He was a disappointment to his teachers in school often slacking in class and not realising his full potential. Along with a hippie couple he fled to California where he worked in a book store as a clerk. It was through this placement that he met the surrealists who gave him opportunities to go to galleries, museums and scouring art books. In the end he finally began to create art of his own. He has since made art for records, books and newspapers/magazines. His main inspirations are Popular culture and experiences in his life. His professional influences are his own family he has a family of fellow artists known as the Lou beaches. His style of work is collages and is heralded as one of the greatest collage makers of all time. He uses collages to essentially create different spins on well known images and art work as well as creating his own unique works. He doesn't do much to change the colours keeping them plain or natural and adding layers over the images to add something crazy and unique. I like his work a lot simply because its something different and very simple.

 I like this image because it is a weird spin on a photograph of a man from older times. The eyes have essentially been duplicated and covered around his head and beard. The colour is completely natural with the eyes being the only editing keeping it nice and simple.