Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86

Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86

Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain, has died at the age of 86. His family confirmed the news in a statement released on 2nd July. Born in Birmingham in...
Marisol: The Revaluation of A Pop Art Icon

Marisol: The Revaluation of A Pop Art Icon

Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American artist born in France in 1930 who became one of her generation’s leading yet often under-recognised figures. A new retrospective, the largest ever mounted of Marisol’s work, features...
Duggie Fields British Artist And Fashion Icon Dies Age 75

Duggie Fields British Artist And Fashion Icon Dies Age 75

Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. His work was internationally influential, especially his graphic sensibility. His fashion sense was second to none. He emerged in the early seventies...