
Peter Blake
'Found Art: Eggs' - A signed limited inkjet print with silkscreen glazes by Sir Peter Blake.
'Found
Art: Eggs' reflects Blake’s admiration for the beautiful illustration
in natural history encyclopedias of the nineteenth century, this page
showing the diversity of egg-types in nature is a perfect example of
this beauty. Blake collects such books as part of his collection of
printed materials and searches through them for inspiration as well as
for images to use in his collage work. The key tenet of the Found Art
series is to enlarge non-art objects and images to allow the viewer to
see them in a new light. The enlargement of this page allows us to see
every detail and sheen of texture of the eggs depicted, to see the page
takes on an almost abstract quality, concerned with pattern colour and
texture. The scientific layout of these specimens with their labeling
etc. would hold great appeal to the collecting instinct of the artist.