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Delta, born Boris Tellegen, began as a Graffiti artist in the 1980s. After studying industrial design engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the early 1990s,
Delta began creating mixed-media sculptures, collages, and installations. The influence of architecture and design is apparent in his work in all media,
with his focus on depth and creating a sense of three-dimensionality on a flat surface. He lives and works in Amsterdam. |
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Joey Krebs (also known as "The Street Phantom", "The Phantom Street Artist", or Joel Jaramillo), a well-known Los Angeles graffiti artist
who has exhibited at numerous galleries in Los Angeles, New York City, and throughout the United States. Phantom's graffiti work regularly uses
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Rage Against The Machine "The Battle of Los Angeles" |
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Invader
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Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, born in 1969, whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 1970s and 1980s 8-bit video games.
He took his name from the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, and much of his work is composed of square ceramic tiles inspired by video game characters.
Although he prefers to remain incognito, his creations can be seen in many highly-visible locations in more than 65 cities in 33 countries. |
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Les Toits Du Palace "La Souris Delinguee" |
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Mr. Brainwash
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Mr. Brainwash - often written MBW - is a name used by Paris-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta.
According to the Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Guetta began as a proprietor of a clothing store and amateur videographer who
was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader. |
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Madonna "Celebration" |
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Yayoi Kusama
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Yayoi Kusama (born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation,
and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art
and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is
infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists
to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. |
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Towa Tei "Lucky" |
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Banksy
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Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical
street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. Such artistic works
of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. |
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Various "We Love You So Love Us" |
Dirty Funker "Flat Beat" |
Roots Manuva "Yellow Submarine" |
Dirty Funker "Future" |
Blur "Think Tank" |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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TheOffs "First Record" |
The Rammellzee + K-Rob "Beat Bob" |
Gray "Gray" |
Various "Baden Baden Free Jazz Meeting 1967" |
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Kid Acne
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Kid Acne (born in Malawi 1978) is a UK-based artist, illustrator, print-maker and emcee. His formative years were spent writing graffiti,
self-publishing fanzines and making experimental hip-hop - invariably designing and printing the record sleeves by hand. The combination
of these interests informed the development of his own unique aesthetic. A stalwart of the international Street Art movement, Kid Acne has painted
large-scale murals across continents and exhibited extensively over the past two decades. |
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TTC "Leguman/Subway" |
TTC "Elementaire" |
TTC "Danser" |
TTC "Des Pauvres Riches" |
Caural "Blurred July" |
Scotty Hard "The Science of Sesh" |
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Mongrels "Low Budget High Concept" |
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D*Face
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Since his rise to fame in 2005, Dean Stockton aka D*Face has grabbed contemporary art scene by the throat. With his inexhaustible mind
full of ideas and endless creativity, the artist manages to reinvent himself constantly. As a result, D*Face has been at the forefront
of the urban art and one of the main figures of the movement for over a decade. |
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Blink 182 "California 2 LP Album" |
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Shepard Fairey
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Shepard Fairey (born Frank Shepard Fairey) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1970. Whilst attending the Rhode Island School of Design,
he created a small company named Alternative Graphics, selling stickers, t-shirts, skateboards and posters through a mail-order catalogue. Fairey is famous
for creating the Andre the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign that attracted significant curiosity and interest, eventually evolving into the Obey Giant clothing brand. |
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Doors "Honor The Treaties" |
Beulah "The Coast Is Never Clear" |
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Prefab77
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Peter Manning aka PREFAB77 has his origins in the North of England, California and New York. Creating fast, hard edged, stripped down
artwork that is often political, sometimes anti-establishment, but always beautiful. He weaves small, allegorical pieces of modern popular
culture, pure rock and rebellion reflecting on the passing of our familiar institutions, shadowy establishment on the take and take small
bites out of the underbelly of our modern culture that gets more bizarre with each passing day. It is a dark word of money, fashion, music
and politics woven into a luxurious mixture of acryllic, spraypaint, wheatpaste and varnish. |
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New York Dolls "Dancing Back in High Heels" |
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Julian Opie
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Julian Opie's distinctive reductive style draws from diverse influences including billboards, classical portraiture and sculpture, dance, Japanese woodblocks,
and cartoons. His work comprises silhouettes, animations, LED animations, and simplified portraits and landscapes. Employing a variety of media and technologies
to make "paintings"" of his subjects, Opie distills everyday images and experiences into concise but evocative signs and pictograms. |
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Blur "The Best of Blur" |
Simply Red "The Right Thing" |
Simply Red "The Right Thing Picture Disc" |
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Doze Green
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Doze Green was born and raised in the upper west side of Manhattan, New York City and was one of the pioneers of the Hip-Hop culture.
He first started writing graffiti in his neighborhood in 1974, and started painting subway trains in 1976. The following year he joined
the Rock Steady Crew. The Rock Steady Crew were pioneers of a new style of dance known as break dancing or B-Boying. The crew first
started dancing at art exhibitions and galleries of Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Rock Steady Crew "Uprock" |
Pressage "Outer Perimeter" |
Various "Deep Concentration" |
Various "Deeper Concentration" |
New Sector Movements "Download This" |
New Sector Movements "No Tricks" |
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The Rammellzee "Fight My Fire" |
Mass Influence "The Science" |
Rakaa "Crown of Thorns" |
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Faile
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FAILE is the Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Their name is an anagram of their first project,
"A life". Since its inception in 1999, FAILE has been known for a wide ranging multimedia practice recognizable for its explorations of duality through a
fragmented style of appropriation and collage. While painting and printmaking remain central to their approach, over the past decade FAILE has adapted its
signature mass culture-driven iconography to vast array of materials and techniques, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas,
prints, sculptures, stencils, installation, and prayer wheels.
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Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 1A" |
Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 1B" |
Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 2A" |
Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 2B" |
Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 3A" |
Seth Jabour "Bast Deluxx Fluxx 3B" |
Futura
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The living legend of the graffiti movement, illustrator, photographer, sculptor, fashion and graphic designer from
New York City, Futura - also known as Futura 2000 - is one of the major players on the current international urban art scene. The contemporary of SAMO,
Keith Haring, Richard Hambleton, Cope2 and many other iconic NY writers, Futura helped define the graffiti movement of the early 1970s by moving
it away from lettering and towards the more painterly, abstract style. |
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Unkle "Eye For An Eye" |
Unkle "Psyence Fiction" |
Unkle "Be There" |
Unkle "The Time Has Come" |
Unkle "Rabbit In Your Headlights" |
The Rammellzee "How's Your Girlfriends" |
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Peter Blake
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Sir Peter Blake is one of the leading figures in the art world, often referred to as the Godfather of British Pop Art.
Best known for the iconic album cover he produced for the Beatles 'Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band', Blake's work is inspired by his love affair
with icons and the ephemera of popular culture. |
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Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
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Michael Cooper
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Michael Cooper (1941-1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos
he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. His best known work is the cover photography for the 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.
The "Welcome the Rolling Stones, Good Guys" sweatshirt worn by the "little girl" figure on the far right of the photo (actually a cloth figure of Shirley Temple)
was provided by Cooper's young son Adam, the product of his marriage to Rose, his muse and model. Cooper also created the cover lenticular for the Rolling Stones 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Cooper died by suicide in 1973, caught in a spiral of depression and heroin addiction.
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Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" |
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Tom Wilkes
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Graphic designer Tom Wilkes created some of the most iconic and influential images in pop music history, masterminding covers
for landmark recordings including the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, Janis Joplin's Pearl, and Neil Young's Harvest. Born in Long Beach, CA, on July 30, 1939,
Wilkes funded studies at Long Beach City College, UCLA, and the Art Center School in Los Angeles by painting elaborate illustrations on friends' cars.
He initially entered advertising, and was running his own agency in 1967, the year he designed his first album covers, including the Rolling Stones' Flowers.
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RollingStones "Flowers" |
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George Hardie
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George Hardie (*1944) is an English graphic designer, illustrator and educator, best known for his work producing cover art for the albums
of rock musicians and bands with the British art design group Hipgnosis. His work includes the cover artwork for Led Zeppelin's debut album, Led Zeppelin (1969),
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Wish You Were Here (1975).
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Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin" |
Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" |
Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" |
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson (1944 - 2013) was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through
most of their career, and also created album or other art for Led Zeppelin, Phish, Black Sabbath, 10cc, the Alan Parsons Project, the Mars Volta and the Cranberries. |
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Pink Floyd "The Division Bell" |
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Lee Conklin
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Lee Conklin is an artist best known for his psychedelic poster art of the late 1960s, and his iconic album cover for Santana's debut album.
Conklin was born in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in 1941 and graduated from Spring Valley High School in New York in 1959. He attended Calvin College
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked as a cartoonist for the college newspaper. He served in the United States Army and was stationed in South Korea as a cook,
where he painted murals on mess halls. He was discharged from the Army in May 1967. He moved to San Francisco began creating concert posters and record covers
for the growing music scene from 1968 to 1970. He currently lives in Central California. |
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Santana "Santana" |
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Klaus Voormann
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Klaus Voormann (born 1938) is a German artist, musician, and record producer. Voormann was the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969,
and performed as a session musician on a host of recordings, including "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon, Lou Reed's Transformer album, and on many recordings of the former members of the Beatles.
Voormann's association with the Beatles dates back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John Lennon
and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners. |
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Beatles "Revolver" |
BeeGees "Bee Gees 1st" |
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Heinz Edelmann
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Heinz Edelmann (1934 - 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine brought him additional recognition around the world.
Edelmann was born in Ustí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia. In 1946 his whole family - regardless of mixed ethnic roots - was expelled into Germany and they settled in its western part.
From 1953 to 1958 studied printmaking at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf Arts Academy). He began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer for theatre posters and advertising in Germany.
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In the late 1960s, CBS Records in Germany pressed several sampler LPs showcasing then-popular artists on the label, and each of the records were pressed on multicolored
vinyl in order to attract buyers. |
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Various "That's Underground" |
Various "Pop Revolution" |
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Gerald Coulson
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Gerald Coulson is a British landscape painter, best known known for his detailed depictions of the English countryside, wildlife, and aviation scenes.
Born in 1926 in Kenilworth, England, Coulson went on to study both art and aircraft engineering to become a pilot. Today, his work can be found in the collections of the
Royal Air Force Museums in Hendon, the Cranwell and Staff College, and The National Railway Museum in New York. Coulson lives and works in Cambridgeshire, England. |
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Mike Oldfield "Five Miles Out" |
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Roger Dean
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In 1971 Roger Dean created his first album cover (Flying Elephants) for the African Rock Band Osibisa.
Dean had been doing Rock covers since 1969 for bands like Lighthouse and Atomic Rooster, but the Osibisa art gave the world a taste of the mature
work that Dean would later produce for a little band called Yes. |
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Osibisa "Woyaya" |
Osibisa "Osibirock" |
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RNesbit, Phillps and Froome
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London design agency Nesbit, Phipps & Froome prepared the artwork. They took pictures of the band, cut out and stuck them onto a blow-up of the Mount Rushmore photo,
making a less than successful attempt to paint over the joins and blend the images together (there were no digital retouching tools available then). |
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Emil Schult
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After studying Sinology in Munster, Schult joined the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf in 1969 to study Fine Arts in the printmaking class of Dieter Roth,
and later in the painting classes of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter. In 1973, he finished his studies with the title of 'Meisterschuler' of Gerhard Richter.
Both Joseph Beuys and Dieter Roth, as well as Roth's partner Dorothy Iannone, remained important for Schult's artistic development. In 1969, Schult lived in Reykjavik at Roth's studio-home.
Schult has developed a vast body of work beginning with prints, drawings and artist's books that encompass philosophical writings, poems, comics, collages and drawings. |
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HR Giger
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Unique among album cover designers, Hans Rudolf Giger (1940 - 2014), aka HR Giger won an Oscar for his "xenomorph" creature in Alien, and continued in the film business for more than four decades,
including working for Ridley Scott's 2012 hit, Prometheus. Giger, who had studied architecture in Zurich, also designed video games and worked in interior design. The surrealist Swiss painter was in demand
in the music business. Among his many triumphs was the 1973 cover for Emerson, Lake and Palmer's album Brain Salad Surgery, which keyboardist Keith Emerson said the band chose
"because it pushed album cover art to its extreme". He also changed Debbie Harry's popular blonde girl image with his cover for KooKoo. |
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Geoff Taylor
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Geoff Taylor was born in Lancaster, England. Educated at Eckington Westfield School in Sheffield, followed by a 3 year Graphic
design course at Chesterfield College of Art. After Five years or so of working in Advertising agencies in Nottingham, Geoff
turned to Illustrations, and book Cover Art. Geoff was one of the original illustrators for the legendary Jeff Waynes Musical Version
of The War of the Worlds album, a signed limited edition series of the four illustrations was printed, on licence from "Jeff Wayne Music".
In fact, the sleeve is so far embedded into rock history that it can be seen in The British Music Experience exhibition at The O2 Arena. |
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Brett-Livingstone Strong
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Brett-Livingstone Strong (*1953) is an Australian-born artist, best known for his historic monumental sculptures and portraits
of Hollywood celebrities. In 1977, Strong arrived in the United States, he was sponsored by the Australian Trade Commission to present
his first American art exhibition in San Francisco, California. In 1978, John Wayne sponsored Strong's US Green Card. Also that year
Strong carved the portrait of Wayne's face in a 100+ ton boulder that had fallen onto the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. In 1978, he sold
the sculpture for $1,13 million to an Arizona-based company and it resides in the library of the Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas. |
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Brett Gurewitz
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The Seeing Eye Gods is the name of the band Brett Gurewitz was is in in the early eighties. It was Brett's first side project
and they released a self-titled 12" picture disc. It was released in 1985 on Epitaph Records at a time when he was heavily into drugs,
and not on good terms with his Bad Religion band-mates. Back then Brett had a distribution deal with a company called Sounds Good and
they released about 1,000 copies. The album has a pop-psychedelic feel to it, with Brett singing on all tracks, and him and
Bertini (his friend and pusher) playing all the instruments. |
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Terry Quirk
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Terry Quirk is a freelance illustrator, writer, and sometimes poet. Born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Terry Quirk has now been a member of the Ilford
community in the UK for the past 40 years where he has become known locally for his work with schools and charities. He is widely known for creating the
album artwork for The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle and Still Got That Hunger. The artwork is today instantly recognisable due to the spelling error which sees
Odyssey spelt with a misplaced “e”. In fact, the sleeve is so far embedded into rock history that it can be seen in The British Music Experience exhibition at The O2 Arena. |
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Harry Willock
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In 1968, Alan Aldridge and Harry Willock set up Ink Studios, and work from Ink studios was popping up everywhere, the combination of Alan and Harry was becoming formidable.
In Ink's first year, Harry picked up a D&AD Silver Award for the Small Faces album, Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, a die cut cover as a replica ornate Victorian tobacco tin. In 2000 Q magazine
placed Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake at number 59 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The album was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. |
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Robert McCall
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Robert McCall (1919 – 2010) was an illustrator for Life magazine in the 1960s, created promotional artwork
for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Richard Fleischer's production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
and worked as an artist for NASA, documenting the history of the Space Race. McCall was also production illustrator on
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Walt Disney's The Black Hole (1979). |
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Sound Track "2001 - A Space Odyssey" |
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Victor Vasarely (after)
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Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the short-lived op art movement.
His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. |
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As One "Planetary Folklore" |
Anders Helmerson "End of Illusionlanetary Folklore" |
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Gerhard Richter (after)
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Gerhard Richter (*1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces.
He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction,
with him being the most expensive living painter at one time. Richter has been called the "greatest living painter", "the world's most important artist" and the "Picasso of the 21st century". |
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Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation" |
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Hajime Sorayama
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Hajime Sorayama is a Japanese illustrator known for his precisely detailed, erotic portrayals of feminine robots,
along with his design work on the original Sony AIBO. He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which
he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object. Alberto Vargas' name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a guy hired by "Esquire" magazine to imitate
departed star George Petty, who bolted over pay. |
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The Weeknd "Echoes of Silence" |
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