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A comparison between Peter Blake and Andy Warhol

I am going to compare to portrait artist and that will be PETER BLAKE and ANDY WARHOL. Both these artist have similarity ad differences in their work and in the portraits.  The similarity between these two artist is they are both portrait artist and they had they unique way to make portraits.  As they are both known as pop artist, for example the wrestlers portraits which Peter Blake make.

Warhol a powerful pop culture figure, Warhol turned to portrait painting of celebrities but his activities had already expanded beyond art making; he was in the centre of a corporation. Warhol himself did not want to explain his pictures.

Blake is the self-proclaimed founding of Pop Art, his Captain Webb matchbox preceded Andy Warhol's Brillo Pad boxes and Campbell's soup cans, and he was painting comics. However most of the art work that Blake did was like an experiment which he was always changing as if he likes the theme or the work about it he would continue with that process.  As he wanted to make an art that was the visual equivalent of pop music. Blake’s associations with popular culture led to him being recognised as a Pop Artist.It was more personal and had its roots in other traditions. Reflecting his broad art with growing imagery and nature.

Around the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists, making a number of paintings including imagery from advertisements, music hall entertainment, and wrestlers. Peter Blake's early work is two major subjects, fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic elements.

These both artists are quite similar as being a pop art artist they both do it in the unique way. As for Peter Blake is best known for his ionic portraits of the wrestler where he used the picture as a strong fill or some is in power. The main wrestler’s portraits which he used were real and some fake however he showed the feature by making them look strong and quite straight as they in charge or they can out rule any one. The portraits look like big leaflets and posters which made them look harsher as a picture and they looked as they were straight also focused portraits. Andy Warhol is best known for his iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Kennedy

Examples for the pop art by Peter Blake and Andy Warhol

Marline Monroe (by Andy Warhol) and The Wrestlers (by Peter Blake)

These two portraits have their similarities as I will be exploring the similarities and   differences between portraits of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, their uses of POP ART.

The Marline Monroe portrait shows how Andy Warhol expressed pop art as by casting it to become a picture of the music POP as Peter Blake shares the similarity of expressing the portraits into the POP music. These tow portraits have a different meaning as what they were trying to show. Mostly the artist used the colour scheme to express themselves as for Andy Warhol he shows his personality through the portrait as it shows and comes out as a funky and a unique personality. However looking at the Wrestles by Peter Blake it shows strong figure and powerful look then Marline Monroe’s portrait. In my opinion I think the similarity of the these portraits are expressing a form as what could be the background and the difference is how they should the portraits as Andy Warhol shows the Marline Monroe and all his other portraits similar which the structure and the colour scheme. As for Peter Blake he made his portraits similar but not as Andy Warhol as he used the theme of what he was doing for example most of his Wrestlers like the one shown he made them powerful as if they are controlling and most of them were straight faced. 

The  popular image world of event posters, which Blake combined with portraits, was typical of his work. He would often watch wrestling with his mother, so this was one of the ideas which he had to make, “Powerful and straight” portraits of wrestlers. While looking at Andy Warhol this portrait and the main scheme in his portraits were to be fun and colourful as he used a colour scheme which was settle and Bright and which bland together to make portraits. For example the Marline Monroe portrait shows colour scheme which bland together and stands out form the back-ground.

Blake was keen collector of numerous objects such as postcards, badges and comics, posters which he often painted. Many images are a personal reflection, to some extent echoing the themes covered in his artistic practice as a whole. The Beatles harks back to the artist’s famous album cover Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club in 1967. However Andy Warhol was mainly self- portrait comparing to Peter Blake, as Andy Warhol did many self-portrait of him-self and some other people like Marilyn Monroe which he infused many artist who came after him. As Warhol became famous worldwide for his Pop Art paintings and screen printings. As he was a diverse figure, by doing more self-portraits he also did other Pop art like the WHAM poster as for Peter Blake he continued doing Pop art and wrestler’s portraits.

However looking at Peter Blake also revealed that the final cover wasn't the original one. That design featured an image of the shop 'Granny Takes A Trip' on the Kings Roadin London. Blake created an updated version of Sgt. Pepperwith famous figures from Liverpool history as part of the successful  As the difference was between Blake and Warhol, Blake did a variety of his art work which all had a different concept however Warhol remained doing POP ART but they both did it in a different form as Peter Blake is an experimental pop art artist. Warhol's most famous sculpture is probably hisBrilloBoxes sculptures that also included Heinz ketchup and Campbell's tomato juice cases. Other famous works include the Silver Clouds– helium filled, silver Mylar, pillow-shaped balloons.



The  Sgt.Pepper



There is not much difference between these two artists as they both share the same passion on pop art and they both did similar work in it. These artists were both influence the movement of POP ART so they both did it in their own way.