Diary: Two paintings

Two pieces separated in time and place caught the attention of Billy Mann. For although they are quite different and by very different artists, they both seemed to inhabit a similar perspective

Arroyo (left) and Blake (right) 

Reading Pop Art: A Colourful History, by Alastair Sooke, I was introduced to a 1961 self portrait by Peter Blake (with badges), who is said to have been one of the key originators of Pop Art. The image was striking, and more so when on holiday in Mallorca recently I came across a 1993 portrait by Eduardo Arroyo, 2 Passage Dantzig in the Fundación Juan March. For some reason I came to see these two pieces as relations, part of an everlasting, ever growing family.