He is particularly recognized for the centralization of popular culture in his paintings. He is an iconic figure in the world of pop artwork movement.

One of his masterpiece artworks is On the balcony, Blake creatively makes a combination of different images of simple, ordinary, and normal everyday people.

Then he thematized these pictorial combinations on the subject matter " On the balcony."

The images that constitute the painting consist of transitory elements like magazines, snapshots, and consumer goods.

Artworks found in museums and galleries are also engraved in the painting.

The painting portrays, for instance, a figure on the left side holding a copy of Eduart Manet’s The Balcony (1868) and a LIFE magazine copy is also included.

In all, there are about 32 distinct versions of balcony images in the paintings.

Moreover, juvenility or youth age-grade is being represented in the painting as teenagers. These teenagers can be perceived to be samples of youths from a new generation with an open-minded mindset to the key concepts and principles of pop artwork.

These principles of pop artwork are concerned with the proper breakdown of traditional comprehension and understanding of art objects and also to demystify the difference between art and life.

Imagine a world without art.

The world will be reduced to nothing but a lifeless big sphere revolving around the sun in quiet gloom. Art is the life-giving force that keeps the world spinning around in fun.

Without art, there’s outrightly no meaning to life. Human existence, values, cultures, traditions, language, and other salient things associated with human beings are all embedded, lodged, and deeply rooted in art. For these indispensable roles that art plays, both visually and non-visually, in the world, it is not an overstatement to say art is a close friend of life.

Art is wide.

But no matter the vastness of art, every art form aims to pass messages. As much as art radiates with beauty and aestheticism, the underlying maxim spelling its essence is the message it’s attempting to pass across to the audience.

Furthermore, On the Balcony can be misunderstood to be a collage.

Collage is an art form that involves the incorporation of various materials like cloth, paper, or other objects onto a canvas and engraving them into a composition or painting.

However, On the Balcony is an oil painting, an art process of painting in oil colors.

Although, Blake employs the collage method of incorporating several images within the painting, his painting On the Balcony is an iconic artwork that shows his techniques in oil painting. The artwork can be viewed at Tate Britan

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Metamorphosis of Narcissus was from Salvador Dali painting from Paranoiac critical period.

Narcissus was regarded as the great beauty at that period that broke several other lovers’ hearts by loving only himself and not others. It was believed that the gods punished Narcissus by letting him see his own mirror reflection into the pool. By seeing himself, Narcissus fell in love with himself but couldn’t embrace it and was really frustrated on the fact that he can’t make love to himself. He died due to frustration and was born again in the form of a flower. Salvador Dali used hand-painted color photography techniques in this painting which depicts the after-effects of Narcissus transformation to flower. He was kneeling in the oil with a hand holding an egg from which flower was growing.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus painting depicts Narcissus who was sitting in the pool and watching the mirror reflections of his own while gazing down towards the water in the pool. There is a decaying stone nearby in the painting which corresponds to Narcissus but in a different manner. The egg was used as sexuality in several painting by Dali and was also present in this painting from which Narcissus was growing. In the background of this painting, there were several naked figures present which depicts that they were going into the pool.

This painting meant a great deal to Salvador Dali. In this painting, it is believed according to Greek mythology that Narcissus fell in love with his own mirror reflection coming from the water in a pool. He was unable to embrace it and was pinned away so gods immortalized him in the form of a flower. Salvador Dali completed this painting when he was returning to Paris after such a long time. Salvador Dali got great success in the US. The dimensions of the painting were 51.2 cm × 78.1 cm or 20.12 in × 30 3⁄4 in.

The work can be viewed at Tate Modern, London.

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Ernst also revealed to Sir Roland that the title ‘Celebes’ was taken from some scurrilous couplets popular among German schoolboys.

The Elephant Celebes appeared to be a boiler like monster. The figure had a horned head with sightless eyes. On the left of this figure was a pair of tusk projecting which suggests the possibility of a second head? The neck of the figure was a long coil which was emerging from the upper section hole. The top of the painting consists of a brightly colored mysterious eye which seems to be standing in a large space. The two fishes on the top were swimming in the sky above. On the lower right of the painting was a headless figure seems to be of a woman with her raised arms. The dimensions of the painting The Elephant Celebes were 125.4 cm × 107.9 cm or 49.37 in × 42.48 in.

The Elephant Celebes was regarded as the first masterpiece of Surrealist artwork during Giorgio de Chirico tradition. This painting of Max Ernst was the most famous work of him with the combination of with the collage aspects of Dada in his surrealist early career. Paul Eluard was a poet and Max Ernest’s friend who bought this painting when it was completed in 1921.

Sir Roland Penrose bought it later from him and kept with him until 1975 when he had to sell the painting for the benefit of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The most detailed study of The Elephant Celebes was given through the Sir Roland’s Charlton Lecture.

The work can be viewed at Tate Gallery, London

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One of the most unique artistic achievements of the twentieth century and its closest definition would be – an expression of cultural phenomena of Psychological Symbolism.

Installation is made for The Turbine Hall of Tate Modern museum. It consists of three steel towers, which are high from 9 to 14 meters. Spiral staircases lead to the tops of the towers with platforms surrounded by huge round mirrors. The name of installation can be divided into parts, which are actually names of towers. Around each tower, there are text messages and images which are associatively connected with their names (I Do tower – I am the good mother). In each tower, under the bell jars, there is a sculpture of a mother with a child, presented thematically (I Do tower – mother embracing a baby). Installation can be seen as a metaphor for the internal processes and emotions that are repeated daily. The visitor can climb the towers and move around them from all sides, even can sit for a while on platforms. He is given an opportunity to identify and visualize the internal flows, even the possibility to play with them.

The work can be viewed at Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.

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