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Kurt Schwitters

From 1923 he worked as a commercial artist, graphic designer and typographer for several companies from Hanover and beyond. In 1927 he founded the 'ring neuer werbegestalter' (circle of new commercial artists). Apart from his professional work, he continued the collages and material pictures of the 'Merz'-series. In the mid-30's he was successful on an international level for the first time; in 1937 he emigrated to Norway. His exile in Norway was followed by his escape from the German troops to England, where his isolated position, from which he already suffered back in Norway, did not improve significantly. 

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Man Ray

Man Ray's career is distinctive above all for the success he achieved in both the United States and Europe. First maturing in the center of American modernism in the 1910s, he made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s, and in the 1940s he crossed the Atlantic once again, spending periods in New York and Hollywood. His art spanned painting, sculpture, film, prints and poetry, and in his long career he worked in styles influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. He also successfully navigated the worlds of commercial and fine art, and came to be a sought-after fashion photographer. He is perhaps most remembered for his photographs of the inter-war years, in particular the camera-less pictures he called 'Rayographs', but he always regarded himself first and foremost as a painter.

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Richard Hamilton

Hamilton was a member of the Independent Group, formed in the 1950s by a group of artists and writers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, whose symposiums contributed to the development of Pop art in Britain. He was one of the prime practitioners of the critic Lawrence Alloway's theory of a fine/pop art continuum. Hamilton interpreted this as meaning that 'all art is equal - there was no hierarchy of value. Hamilton designed a collage in 1956 called 'Just what is that which makes today's homes so different?' this soon became one of the most famous pieces of art in 'pop art'.

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Gustav Klutsis

Gustav Klutsis was a Latvian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer and teacher, active in Russia. He was an important exponent of Russian Constructivism. As well as for his designs of practical structures like kiosks, tribunes, and radio-orators, Klutsis became a professor of colour theory at the Constructivist school VKhUTEMAS in 1924. Klutsis designed posters which during the war he designed propaganda for the Russians.

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David Hockney

By his mid-20s Hockney was already one of the most critically acclaimed artist in Britain, at 26 he had his first one man show and was awarded first prize in the John Moores Exhibition in 1967.

Hockney worked in a variety of fields as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer and designer.

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Peter Blake

Peter Blake is an artist who showed 'Pop Art' to many with his very colourful paintings and artwork in which he was one of the first to introduce pop art.
Blake first started his career as an artist with an education at the Gravesend Art School when he was just 16. After a short period of enrolment in the R.A.F., he continued his art studies at the Royal College from 1953-1956 and in the latter half of the ‘50s first earned significant critical acclaim, exhibiting in the R.A. and winning both the Leverhulme Research Award and first prize in the Junior section of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. The increased popularity of his work led to the string of album sleeve commissions which, alongside his work for the Beatles, included sleeves for the Band Aid single Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Paul Weller’s Stanley Road and The Who’s Face Dances (1984, 1995 and 1981 respectively) as well as the more recent Oasis Greatest Hits album Stop the Clocks in 2006. Blake was was appointed an R.A. in 1981, awarded a C.B.E. in 1983 and finally knighted for his services to art in 2002. Peter blake has done some amazing work through out his life and has inspired many people into the world of Pop Art with his bright and colourful artwork in the past.
Peter Blake's Art work
The beatles Album cover                               'I love you'

These Are some of the most famous art pieces that peter blake has designed in the past.

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Frida Kahlo