Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. As well as being known as a painter, Blake is renowned for his works on paper and as a leading exponent of collage. This work displays the strong graphic sensibility and the love of popular culture for which the artist has long been renowned.
Peter Blake, founding father of British Pop Art, has been producing quirky and inventive collages since the mid-1950s, when he was in his early twenties. This work features 21 images that offer a photographic view of Venice from the early 1900s.
This is a study by Peter Blake, which traces the course of modern architecture from its beginnings, prompted by social and political idealism, to the elitism of the 1960s, and finally to a return to its original principles.