“British pop artist Sir Peter Blake has taken inspiration from his most famous artwork – the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures he most admires as he marks his 80th birthday,” Caroline Davies reports for The Guardian.
“Twiggy, Amy Winehouse, Grayson Perry, JK Rowling and even Monty Python’s emblematic foot all feature in a reworked version of the 1967 cover created for his birthday celebrations,” Davies reports. “Blake, often called the godfather of the British pop art scene, said: ‘I’ve chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends.'”
Davies reports, “The new version has been created for a special birthday celebration of Blake’s life at Wayne Hemingway’s Vintage festival at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, in July. Hemingway, co-founder of the Red or Dead fashion brand, said: ‘The new artwork is a tribute to Britain’s standing as the world’s leading creative nation.’ It was ‘an incredible honour’ for Blake to ‘reimagine such an iconic work of art,’ he said, adding: ‘We are proud to be dedicating the Sunday at Vintage this year to celebrate his 80th birthday and creative and cultural legacy.'”
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MacDailyNews Note: Sir Jony can be found six people from the top left and two down, just to above and to the right of none other than Sir Paul McCartney.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “AlanAudio” for the heads up.]
“It was 20 years ago today…”
Happy Birthday Sir Peter Blake.
Rather make that, “It was 80 years ago today…”
lame
I may be wrong on this but was the Monty Python foot a creation of Terry Gilliam, the only American in the troop?
If you want to be picky, the foot was actually painted by an Italian, Agnolo Bronzino in the 16th century. Gilliam copied and pasted it into his opening title sequence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus,_Cupid,_Folly_and_Time