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Peter Phillips (born 21 May 1939) is an English
England
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 artist who is one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement. His work ranges from oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture.

As one of the originators of Pop Art
Pop art
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, Peter got his start at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

 with his fellow students David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....

, Allen Jones
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Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...

, R.B. Kitaj and others of the British Pop Art Movement. When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship
Harkness Fellowship
The Harkness Fellowships are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States...

 he moved to New York, where he exhibited his work alongside his American counterparts Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
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, Roy Lichtenstein
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 and James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
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. Phillips later returned to Europe, where he now resides and continues to paint and exhibit.

Biography


Phillips was born in 1939 in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. From 1953 to 1955, he studied at Moseley Road Secondary School of Art, Birmingham, from 1955 to 1959, at the Birmingham School of Art
Birmingham School of Art
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, its Grade I listed building on...

. In 1959, he visited Paris and started to exhibit at the RBA Galleries
Royal Society of British Artists
The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...

, London.
Don't lie!!!!!!

2000 - Present


Phillips was shown during a retrospective in 2002 at the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy.

In 2003, Claude-Marion Phillips died on 30 January of cancer. Shortly thereafter, in 2004, Phillips staged an exhibition dedicated to his wife, Claude, at Whitford Fine Art (London). Also, he was featured at the "Pop Art UK" group exhibition at Galleriea Civica di Modena, Italy.

While making frequent trips to the United States and Central America, and wintering in Austria, 2005 brought "Metamorphosis" exhibition at Goulanderis Foundation (Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

, Greece) and the "British Pop" group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao
Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

, Spain).

Phillips currently resides in Europe, whiere he continues to paint and exhibit. He also travels frequently to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney.

External links


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Peter Phillips (born 21 May 1939) is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 artist who is one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}}. His work ranges from oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture.

As one of the originators of Pop Art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

, Peter got his start at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

 with his fellow students David Hockney
David Hockney
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, Allen Jones
Allen Jones (sculptor)
Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...

, R.B. Kitaj and others of the British Pop Art Movement. When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship
Harkness Fellowship
The Harkness Fellowships are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States...

 he moved to New York, where he exhibited his work alongside his American counterparts Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

, Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...

 and James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...

. Phillips later returned to Europe, where he now resides and continues to paint and exhibit.

Biography


Phillips was born in 1939 in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. From 1953 to 1955, he studied at Moseley Road Secondary School of Art, Birmingham, from 1955 to 1959, at the Birmingham School of Art
Birmingham School of Art
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, its Grade I listed building on...

. In 1959, he visited Paris and started to exhibit at the RBA Galleries
Royal Society of British Artists
The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...

, London.
Don't lie!!!!!!

2000 - Present


Phillips was shown during a retrospective in 2002 at the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy.

In 2003, Claude-Marion Phillips died on 30 January of cancer. Shortly thereafter, in 2004, Phillips staged an exhibition dedicated to his wife, Claude, at Whitford Fine Art (London). Also, he was featured at the "Pop Art UK" group exhibition at Galleriea Civica di Modena, Italy.

While making frequent trips to the United States and Central America, and wintering in Austria, 2005 brought "Metamorphosis" exhibition at Goulanderis Foundation (Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

, Greece) and the "British Pop" group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao
Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

, Spain).

Phillips currently resides in Europe, whiere he continues to paint and exhibit. He also travels frequently to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney.

External links


You also may be looking for Pete Rock
Pete Rock
Peter Phillips , better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth...

.


Peter Phillips (born 21 May 1939) is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 artist who is one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}}. His work ranges from oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture.

As one of the originators of Pop Art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

, Peter got his start at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

 with his fellow students David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....

, Allen Jones
Allen Jones (sculptor)
Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...

, R.B. Kitaj and others of the British Pop Art Movement. When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship
Harkness Fellowship
The Harkness Fellowships are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States...

 he moved to New York, where he exhibited his work alongside his American counterparts Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

, Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...

 and James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...

. Phillips later returned to Europe, where he now resides and continues to paint and exhibit.

Biography


Phillips was born in 1939 in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. From 1953 to 1955, he studied at Moseley Road Secondary School of Art, Birmingham, from 1955 to 1959, at the Birmingham School of Art
Birmingham School of Art
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, its Grade I listed building on...

. In 1959, he visited Paris and started to exhibit at the RBA Galleries
Royal Society of British Artists
The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...

, London.
Don't lie!!!!!!

2000 - Present


Phillips was shown during a retrospective in 2002 at the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy.

In 2003, Claude-Marion Phillips died on 30 January of cancer. Shortly thereafter, in 2004, Phillips staged an exhibition dedicated to his wife, Claude, at Whitford Fine Art (London). Also, he was featured at the "Pop Art UK" group exhibition at Galleriea Civica di Modena, Italy.

While making frequent trips to the United States and Central America, and wintering in Austria, 2005 brought "Metamorphosis" exhibition at Goulanderis Foundation (Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

, Greece) and the "British Pop" group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao
Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

, Spain).

Phillips currently resides in Europe, whiere he continues to paint and exhibit. He also travels frequently to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney.

External links



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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...


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