Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005)
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COLOURED STILL LIFE 1967 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P1018 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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UNTITLED 1992 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P6085 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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PORTRAIT OF A FRENCHMAN 1971 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P1611 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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SELECTED GRAPES 1981 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P5025 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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SWEET BOWL 1967 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P886 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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YOU'LL BE SICK IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME INDOORS 1973 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P5036 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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INTERIOR: MORNING 1971 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P1612 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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STILL LIFE INGREDIENTS 1976 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P4393 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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ALONG A TWILIGHTED SKY 1973 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P5044 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
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INTERIOR: EVENING 1971 Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005) P1614 © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
Patrick Caulfield was born in London, but brought up in Bolton in Lancashire until after World War II when the family moved back to London. After leaving school Caulfield worked in the design department of Crosse & Blackwell, (where one of his tasks was varnishing the chocolates on display), followed by three years national service with the Royal Air Force. In 1956 he attended Chelsea School of Art and in 1960 undertook postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art. Here he became identified, along with the previous year’s intake (David Hockney, Ron Kitaj, Allen Jones and Derek Boshier) as one of the ‘Pop’ artists. His own interpretation of his work was that "it began as a kind of wholesale reaction against sensitive Slade School English painting which believed that it was bad taste to finish anything". He chose to re-work and ‘modernise’ the traditional themes of Western Art, such as the Still Life, the interior and the Mediterranean view. His work is marked as much by irony and his delight in the visual cliché as by its clear ‘commercial’ colour and thick black outlines which were, for a time, a hallmark of his style. Caulfield was a slow worker: paintings taking months to finish and at most he could make between four and six prints a year.
Glossary
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Design
The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.
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Painting
Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.