Daily Artwork — “The First Real Target?, Peter Blake, 1961”
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The foundations of Pop Art in America were laid during the 1950s by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Like Blake, both these artists incorporated images taken from popular culture into a fine art context, and Blake has acknowledged their example. This work refers to Johns’s work in particular. Whereas Johns had taken a familiar object – a target – and executed this motif on the canvas in a painterly style, Blake took this further by using a real archery target purchased from a sports shop. The work of art is consequently less like a painting and is even closer to the real world. Blake thus questions: is this ‘the first real target’? [MUSEUM CARD]
1961 — The First Real Target?. Enamel on canvas and paper on board. Pop Art style. Peter Blake (1932-). Tate Modern, London, UK.
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Daily Artwork — “Spectrocoupling, Peter Phillips, 1972”
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Daily Artwork — “Pottery, Patrick Caulfield, 1969”
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Daily Artwork — “After Lunch, Patrick Caulfield, 1975”
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1975 — After Lunch. Acrylic on Canvas. Photorealism & Pop Art styles. Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005). Tate Gallery, London, UK.
“[W]hat appears to be a photomural of the Château de Chillon hanging in a restaurant is depicted with high-focus realism, contrasting with the cartoon-like black-outlined imagery and fields of saturated colour of its surroundings. Caulfield deliberately makes the relationship between these varying representational methods uneasy and ambiguous, so that the picture appears more real than the everyday world around it.” (Wikipaintings)
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Daily Artwork — “Vesuvius, Andy Warhol, 1985”
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1985 — Vesuvius. Oil on Canvas. Pop Art style. Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987). Private Collection.
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Daily Artwork — “Forget it! Forget Me!, Roy Lichtenstein, 1962”
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1962 — Forget it! Forget me!. Oil on Canvas. Pop Art style. Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997). Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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Daily Artwork — “Drag – Johnson and Mao, Jim Dine, 1967”
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1967 — Drag – Johnson and Mao. Paper etching. Pop Art style. Jim Dine (1935 – ). Tate Gallery, London, UK.
This double image of the American president LB Johnson and the Chinese leader Chairman Mao humorously subverts the official portrait. (Wikipaintings)
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Daily Artwork — “The Toy Shop, 1962”
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1962 — The Toy Shop. Mixed media. Pop Art style. Peter Blake (1932- ). Tate Gallery, London, UK.
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Daily Artwork — “The Only Blonde in the World, 1963”
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1963 — The Only Blonde in the World. Oil on canvas. Pop Art style. Pauline Boty (1938-1966). Tate Gallery, London, UK.
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