Found Art: Yellow Buttons
By: Sir Peter Blake
Published: 2013
Image Size: 880 mm X 1218 mm
Paper Size: 880 mm X 1218 mm
Edition Size: 25
£2,500.00
Found Art: Yellow Buttons- signed limited edition digital print with silkscreen glazes by Sir Peter Blake.
Blake continues to explore the beauty, elegance and simplicity of commercial design in Found Art: Yellow Buttons. This vintage button set from France is presented an object of beauty and interest beyond the brief glance we might give it if we were buying said buttons as a day-to-day domestic purchase. Blake urges us to re-assess the objects and design we see around us, to question the boundaries of what should be considered ‘fine art’. The regular layout of the buttons is reminiscent of the repeated images in Andy Warhol’s pop art prints, highlighting the relentless production of machine-made culture. The use of digital printing enables Blake to capture the texture of each thread binding the button to the card, and he texture of that card. By enlarging this run-of-the-mill object he makes it somehow alien, allowing us to assess it aesthetically rather than practically.
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