Peter Blake – pop
art work
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, (born 25 June 1932) is an English
pop artist, who is best known for his design of the cover for the Beatles'
album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.
In the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists. His
paintings from this time included imagery from advertisements, music hall
entertainment, and wrestlers, often including collaged elements.
In January 1992, Blake appeared on BBC2's Arena Masters of
the Canvas documentary and painted the portrait of the wrestler Kendo Nagasaki.
In 2002 Peter Blake received a knighthood for his services to art.
Joseph Cornell
–assemblage work
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was
an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated
exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an
avant-garde experimental filmmaker. Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York,
to Joseph Cornell, a well-to-do designer and merchant of textiles, and Helen
TenBroeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a kindergarten teacher.
Cornell was wary of
strangers. This led him to isolate himself and become a self-taught artist.
Cornell was a highly regarded artist towards the end of his career, yet
remained out of the spotlight. He produced fewer box assemblages in the 1950s
and 1960s, as his family responsibilities increased and claimed more of his
time. He hired a series of young assistants, including both students and
established artists, to help him organize material, make artwork, and run
errands.
Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy (born 1959 in Vancouver) is an Anglo-Canadian
painter who lives and works in the UK. Lisa Milroy was born in 1959 and raised
in Vancouver, Canada. She moved to London in 1979 to study at Goldsmiths
College. Milroy is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of
Fine Art, London.
Lisa is known for painting
everyday items such as clothes, shoes and vases in the form of collections. She
paints things in formations such as grids, groups, lines, rows and columns,
which are often painted on plain backgrounds.
Victoria fuller
Fuller works in a
variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and installation art. Her work
during 1980s shows a tendency towards pop cartoon-like imagery on shaped
canvas, later incorporating appropriated objects. Her work from 1990 - 2010
involves the usage of industrial fabricated materials and geometric forms while
combining common everyday objects.
Terry Border
Artist Terry Border is one of those people
who has a secret gift. He can take boring, everyday objects and make them come
alive.
Damon Drummond
Damon Drummond aka Ultrajunk is a found object metal artist
from Akron, Ohio, USA. His passions are
robots, rayguns, lamps, and anything with a vintage science fiction or future Victorian
style. From kitchen stove burners, bicycle headlights, old table legs, and other odds and ends, Drummond’s creations
depend entirely on his daily finds at the scrap yard.
http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/05/11/ultrajunk-found-object-art/
