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  Peter Blake (artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The outbreak of World War II impacted Peter Blake’s youth to a large extent as he was evacuated from his hometown and this situation coupled with the wartime resource rationing and economic conditions resulted in a profound effect upon the subject matter within Blake’s later works.
Blake was part of a generation that would be deeply affected in the post-war situation as young men were required to serve in the military; subsequently the high cost of training conscripts, resources for the military and the redirection of the young male workforce contributed to the decline of the British economy.
Blake was made a Royal Academician in 1981, a CBE in 1983, and in 2002 was knighted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Blake_(artist)   (926 words)

  
 Peter Blake (yachtsman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Peter Blake (October 1, 1948–December 6, 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country to two successive America’s Cup victories.
Blake is the only sailor to have taken part in the first five Whitbread Round the World races.
Blake returned to the Whitbread Round the World race in 1985 with one of the race favourites, Lion New Zealand, sponsored by the Lion Brewery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Blake_(yachtsman)   (606 words)

  
 CNN.com - Peter Blake: A hero of sailing - January 1, 2002
Blake, who was head of the 1995 "Black Magic" syndicate that won the America's Cup off San Diego, was killed in Amazonia when his boat Seamaster was attacked by pirates.
Blake, 53, twice a New Zealand Sportsman of the Year, left the job in August 2000 and took over the old Jacques Cousteau boat Antarctic Explorer, renaming her Seamaster.
Blake's first experience of America's Cup racing was in 1992 when New Zealand lost the challenger finals to an Italian syndicate.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/sailing/01/01/ppl.blake.obit   (524 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - More Sports - America's Cup skipper Blake killed in shooting in Amazonia - Thursday December 06, 2001 ...
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Peter Blake, one of the world's most accomplished sailors who headed the New Zealand crew that won the America's Cup in 1995 and 2000, was shot and killed by river pirates during a robbery of his boat on the Amazon River in northern Brazil, police said Thursday.
Blake was shot dead late Wednesday during a holdup aboard his 119-foot (36-meter) yacht, the Seamaster, anchored on the Amazon River in the northern jungle state of Amapa, some 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) north of Sao Paulo, said state police chief Rosilene Martins de Sena.
Blake, who began sailing at age 5, won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989 and took the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by sailing nonstop around the globe on a catamaran in 74 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes and 22 seconds.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/2001/12/06/skipper_shot   (882 words)

  
 Boat Design Forums - View Single Post - Peter Blake murdered!
Blake, who announced his resignation as head of Team New Zealand earlier this year, was leading a voyage to the upper Amazon and Orinoco rivers in South America.
Blake was fatally wounded and two other members of Seamaster's crew were also hurt — one with a gunshot wound across the back, the other with a blow to the face, Omega said.
Blake also was a past winner of the Whitbread Round the World Race (1989) and the 1994 recipient of the Jules Verne Trophy.
www.boatdesign.net /forum/showpost.php?p=603&postcount=3   (615 words)

  
 AmericaOne - Sir Peter Blake
In 1995, Blake was back, this time at the head of Team New Zealand, which sailed under the burgee of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
This unprecedented win-loss record was, indeed, a tribute to Blake's inspirational abilities, and the effect of bonding the syndicate head with the crew.
Blake's numerous accolades include two Sportsman of the Year awards and four Yachtsman of the Year awards.
www.americaone.org /news/ac-news/blake.html   (404 words)

  
 Peter Blake, the world's leading sailor, shot dead in attack by Amazon pirates
Sir Peter Blake, the world's most famous sailor, who went further and faster then anyone before, was yesterday shot and killed by a group of armed pirates known as "the water rats" in a night-time robbery on his boat in the Brazilian Amazon.
Blake, aged 53, had returned from dinner with his crew in Macapa, a remote city on the northern bank of the Amazon delta, when a gang of up to eight men arrived at his boat by rubber dinghy.
Blake, who was appointed in July as a goodwill ambassador of the United Nation's environment programme, was on a research expedition - sponsored by Omega - that was progressing up the River Amazon.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/12-7-2001-8514.asp   (708 words)

  
 Peter Blake
Peter Blake is the son of Rachel Blake.
When Peter and Jennifer finally emerged from their love nest, Roman viciously questioned Peter about Leo, the drugs, his nightclub, etc. This shocked everyone, but Peter claimed that it was all a lie and everyone stood by him.
While he was unconscious, Peter recalled knowing the Lady in White in his childhood, and remembered her humming the melody "Green Sleeves." Peter eventually emerged from his coma, but kept his odd flashbacks a secret and proceeded with the wedding preparations.
www.bethsdayspage.com /days/characters/Peter.html   (5453 words)

  
 BBC - Norfolk Culture Alphabet: a Pop Art exhibition by Peter Blake
Peter Blake won international fame in the 1960's as one of the leading exponents of the British Pop Art movement.
The prints are evocative of Blake's early work and perhaps serve as an index of some of his artistic interests and veneration for the icons of popular culture demonstrated explicitly in the seminal cover art for the Beatle's 'Sergeant Pepper' album.
Blake's work has defined him as a serious commentator on political, cultural and humanist issues through images born from a love affair with the icons and ephemera of popular culture, emphasised by the use of collage, photo-montage, lithography and silkscreen printing: indicative of qualities that defined Pop Art.
www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/culture/alphebet.shtml   (456 words)

  
 Massey News | Tribute to Sir Peter BLake
“Peter was just starting out on a new adventure in his life, looking forward to all the things he was yet to achieve and the tragedy is it was cut short.
He says one of the most defining characteristics of Peter Blake was the courage to pursue his dreams, to understand the risks involved, to welcome the challenge but also to respect it.
Sir Peter Blake was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Commerce from Massey University in 1999 in recognition of his pioneering role sport and in particular the way in which commercial sponsorship could contribute to promoting sport in New Zealand.
masseynews.massey.ac.nz /_2001/news_releases/07_12_01.html   (581 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | SPORTS TALK  | Your tributes to Sir Peter Blake
Peter was the mate and took us youngsters under his wing, showed us what blue water racing was all about, lead us through some unbelievable and frightening conditions, drove the boat hard, showed us that we could achieve, made us laugh and brought us home in one piece.
Sir Peter Blake was a hero and a pioneer for the ocean that he loved with all his heart, and I am saddened to hear such brutality that has been brought upon him.
I met Peter Blake shortly before he set off on his Amazon trip, and was struck by his commitment to the cause of the environment, and to getting his message across to a worldwide public.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/sports_talk/newsid_1696000/1696165.stm   (4377 words)

  
 12/07/01: Police in Brazil Arrest Seven in Killing of Yachtsman Peter Blake...
Blake, 53, who led New Zealand to America's Cup victories in 1995 and 2000, was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution when he died.
Blake and a crew of 10 spent two months in the upper reaches of the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers, where they encountered nothing but "friendly, warm, hospitable people," said Alan Sefton, spokesman for Blake's organization, blakexpeditions.
Blake was "a passionately honest person and undoubtedly the best leader and manager of a (racing) campaign that I've ever seen," Blackman said.
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 Peter Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Peter Blake was born in Dartford, Kent in 1932.
During this period, Blake's work was essentially figurative, focusing of largely autobiographical scenes, though often inspired by comics and the circus, a precursor to his later 'Pop' work.
In 1956-7 Blake traveled Europe studying popular art and in 1959 the first pop works appeared in the form of collages of pin-up singers and actresses.
www.slybrownfox.com /artists/b/pblake.htm   (307 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blake's prophetic books are, in proportion to their length and literary importance, amongst the least read texts within the body of English Literature.
Ackroyd's examination of Blake's life is important in that it aids in expelling this illusion, both by relating the nature of Blake's time and place to the artist's output, and by being willing to engage Blake on his own ground.
Either way, Blake is far from a madman and closer to a genius; consequently, one can feel the grain of his life - as he lived it - passing under the fingertips as they turn the pages.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0749391766   (1038 words)

  
 Sir Peter Blake murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Peter Blake, a seaman from New Zealand who was known the world over was murdered on the 6th of December, 2001.
Sir Peter was aboard his Seamaster vessel in the Amazon river mouth when it was attacked by river pirates.
On May 6 2002, I received a note from Peter W. French saying the date was in error, "I now think that the time was 22.15 on the 5th (not the 6th)." This is the time of the formal analysis.
noosphere.princeton.edu /peterblake.html   (480 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eliot, Blake was a visionary, who long before Freud saw warfare as a form of repressed sexuality and believed there were eternal states of rage, desire and selfhood through which a man passes, keeping his soul intact.
Peter Ackroyd's 1995 "Blake: A Biography," is a good, but not a great biography of the late 18th-early 19th century poet, prophet, painter, and genius, William Blake.
Certainly, Blake is one artist who invites such interpretations, with the fact that he attributed his method of illuminated printing to a conversation with his dead brother, Robert, and the fact that Blake incorporates figures from his own life in his works.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345376110?v=glance   (3274 words)

  
 The Arcadian Cipher by Peter Blake and Paul Blezard - Reviewed by David Skea - Eclectica Magazine v5n1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Peter Blake is the son of the fine art restorer Henley Blake and initially followed his father into the same career.
In Blake's words "It was while looking closely at 'The Shepherds of Arcadia' that I realised that it also told a hidden story using the same principles that I had discovered in the Signorelli".
Blake tells us that during his career his interest in the history and religions of the ancient civilisations had broadened and he now devoted most of his time working to uncover those aspects of these past cultures that mainstream historians ignore.
www.eclectica.org /v5n1/skea_blake_blezard.html   (446 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Blake: Leading light of pop art
Peter Blake, who has been knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list, was one of the leading lights of the pop art movement of the 1960s.
Sir Peter's first brush with fame came when he was featured in Ken Russell's seminal film Pop Goes the Easel which was shown on the BBC in 1962.
Sir Peter even admitted he was close to quitting the Royal Academy in the wake of the furore.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2045522.stm   (463 words)

  
 Environmentalist Sailor Peter Blake Killed by Pirates
Blake, who led New Zealand to the America's Cup sailing championship in 1995 and 2000, was shot and killed by pirates in the Amazon on Wednesday, Dec. 5, his race sponsors said Thursday, Dec 6, 2001.
Blake, 53, was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution aboard his 119-foot yacht, said Alan Sefton, spokesman for Blake's organization, blakexpeditions.
Blake and a crew of 10 arrived in Brazil in October.
www.commondreams.org /headlines01/1206-05.htm   (903 words)

  
 Sir Peter Blake Honoured by IOC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
[On] 23 October 2002, the late Sir Peter Blake was honoured by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the presentation by His Majesty King Constantine of the IOC Olympic Order, which was accepted by Lady Pippa Blake on her late husband’s behalf.
In 2000, Sir Peter formed `Blake Expeditions’ with the aim to educate and encourage people to protect life in, on and around the sea in those parts of the world which are key to the planet’s ecosystem.
It was on Sir Peter’s second voyage on `Seamaster’ in the Amazon that he was tragically killed.
www.sailing.ca /featureUploads/documentUploads/blake.htm   (694 words)

  
 Peter Blake (1932 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Peter Blake was one of the leading figures in the development of Pop art.
Born in London in 1757, William Blake's thinking was much influenced by the French Revolution, which was generally regarded as a sign of the dawning of a new age in Europe.
Blake's projections probe the psychological aura of this architectural wonder constructed by Sara Winchester, widow of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, over the course of thirty-eight years, beginning in the late nineteenth century.
wwar.com /masters/b/blake-peter.html   (1394 words)

  
 Latitude 38 Features: Peter Blake - Murder on the Amazon
Blake was directed to an anchorage off the small fishing hamlet of Fazendinha, where they dropped the pick several hundred metres offshore to await a visit from the Customs official who would clear them to leave Brazilian waters.
Peter James Blake was born on October 1, 1948, in Auckland.
Blake was back with Williams and Knox-Johnson for the '77-'78 Whitbread with a better program and a better boat, the 77-ft Sharp 'super maxi' Heath's Condor.
www.latitude38.com /features/Blake.htm   (3508 words)

  
 Art in America: Peter Blake at Paul Morris - New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although his paintings and collages are essential to the history of British Pop, Peter Blake is more often celebrated for his cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's album, a kind of professional albatross that obscures a lifetime of engagement with popular culture.
Last year, at the age of 70, Blake retired from the Royal Academy, completed a sizable painting begun 25 years before, appeared in a cameo role as a wizard in the new Harry Potter film, was awarded a knighthood and agreed to his first solo exhibition in New York.
Spooking Jack Pierson is a riff on things ghostly and not; most of the letters Blake assigns to "spooking" appear in white, including an "I" stenciled directly onto the paper support, while the letters of "Jack Pierson" are multicolored and three-dimensional.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_91/ai_96126367   (495 words)

  
 Remembering Peter Blake, "Seafarer with a Conscience"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a competitive sailor, Sir Peter Blake navigated the world's most dangerous oceans: competing in seven round-the-world races and fearing for his and his crew's lives in 1994 when they found themselves amid icebergs, 70-knot winds, and huge waves.
The socks—a new pair was given to Blake by his wife, Pippa, before every major regatta—became the symbol of New Zealand's America's Cup campaign.
When he was eight, his parents bought him a P-class dinghy and Blake began racing and sailing with his three siblings to Rangitoto Island off Auckland to climb the volcanic crater.
news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/12/1212_wirepeterblake_1.html   (776 words)

  
 12/6/01 PETER BLAKE DEAD AT 53   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
December 6, 2001 (PARIS) -- America's Cup winner Peter Blake, one of most successful sailors in yachting history, was killed in a shooting in Amazonia on Thursday, his sponsors said.
Blake, 53, was aboard a boat with his crew when they were attacked by pirates and he was shot dead, they said.
Blake's numerous sporting accolades included two New Zealand Sportsman of the Year awards and four New Zealand Yachtsman of the Year awards.
www.ussailing.org /Pressreleases/2001/PeterBlake.htm   (226 words)

  
 Jewelers Circular Keystone: Omega mourns Peter Blake. (Watch World).(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Omega-sponsored environmentalist Sir Peter Blake, 53, a two-time winner of the prestigious America's Cup yachting race, was murdered Dec. 6 in Brazil.
Omega, one of the world's leading Swiss luxury watches, is chief sponsor of "blakexpeditions," which Blake founded to raise awareness of environmental issues affecting "life in, on, and around the waters of the world." The watch company also sponsored Blake's vessel Seamaster, named for Omega's diving watch.
Blake's death was reported "with deepest regret" by Omega in a statement issued Dec. 6.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:83915425&refid=holomed_1   (161 words)

  
 The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake - BOAT GENERAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As the world knows, Blake was tragically murdered by river pirates in December 2001 while exploring the Amazon.
Sir Peter Blake was one of the great yachtsmen of the 20th century.
Alan Sefton is an experienced sports writer and serves as the manager of blakexpeditions, the company formed with Sir Peter Blake.
www.sheridanhouse.com /catalog/boatgeneral/lastgreatadventure.html   (286 words)

  
 Sir Peter Blake Trust - The Adventure Continues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The seven Sir Peter Blake Ambassadors and 600 other children from around the world, who gathered for the UNEP Children's World Summit for the Environment in Japan, are challenging the world's leaders to pay higher attention to energy, biodiversity, and water and recycling.
Sir Peter's love of young people, his enduring sense of adventure and discovery will be reflected in the activities of the Trust.
Sir Peter Blake was an outstanding world citizen and one of New Zealand's heroes.
www.sirpeterblaketrust.org   (241 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Columnists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blake: Is Holtzman skirting campaign rules in ad against Ref C? September 10, 2005
Blake: Dennis a menace to Coffman's aspirations, says Mr.
Blake: Coffman far away but still controls two state jobs
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/columnist/0,1299,DRMN_86_104,00.html   (206 words)

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