Sir Peter Blake has launched an art app that applies dazzle camouflage to pictures

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Pop Art pioneer Sir Peter Blake launches app allowing phone and tablet users to add a bit of Razzle Dazzle to their photographs

Sir Peter Blake may be best known for his adventures in Pop Art and for designing the 1967 Beatles’ Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, but he is looking both forwards and backwards for his latest project.

Dazzle It is a new app inspired by early 20th century artists who painted British vessels in dazzle camouflage to confuse enemy U-boats. It allows aspiring artists around the world to remix their photos using Sir Peter’s take on the famous design. 

Sir Peter recently dazzled the Mersey Ferry Snowdrop in a new First World War Centenary art commission for Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 NOW, at Tate Liverpool. Now everyone is being invited to apply his original designs to their own photos or gallery images, creating an infinite number of possibilities to remix Sir Peter’s work.

“Dazzle It uses cutting-edge technology that allows aspiring artists everywhere to remix my design and discover more about the way in which early 20th century artists participated in the war effort,” he says of the new app which can apply a dazzle image to a 3D model which can then be viewed, via their device’s camera, within an augmented reality scene.

Dazzle It users can also choose Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship London monochrome pattern, which feature on the HMS President (1918) vessel on the Thames.

The app follows the series of three Dazzle Ship commissions: Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris 2014 by Carlos Cruz-Diez on the Liverpool Waterfront; Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship London on the River Thames and Everybody Razzle Dazzle by Sir Peter Blake.  The three dazzled vessels are available to see throughout 2015.

• Dazzle It is available on iOS and Android devices from the iTunes and Google Play stores: Apple App Store: itunes.apple.com/us/app/dazzle-it/id1022780620?ls=1&mt=8

• Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.corporationpop.dazzleships

Use the hashtag #Dazzleit.

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Three galleries to see works by Sir Peter Blake in

Newport Museum and Art Gallery
The art gallery houses collections of British paintings, watercolours and contemporary prints, including works by Sir Peter. The reserve collection holds works which show the changing face of South Wales’s rural and industrial landscape which now incorporates a recent allocation of paintings from the Arts Council of Wales.

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Works by Sir Peter, Allen Jones, Bridget Riley and Peter Phillips manifest the riot of colour, fashion and art of the era in current exhibition The 1960s. Until January 10 2016.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, organised by the Barbican, features the personal collections of major artists including Sir Peter, Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin and Andy Warhol. Until January 31 2016.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art536245-sir-peter-blake-launches-dazzle-art-app