PATRICK CAULFIELD Great Britain 1936-200 "Jug (Pink)"
The remarkable thing about Caulfield's vignettes, complex, anticipatory, elegiac, is that they are rendered with all the deadpan flatness of a DIY manual, a harkback perhaps to Caulfield's career which started out in the design department of Crosse & Blackwell. Before national service and Chelsea School of Art, he was a close student of cartoons, London pub signs, Edward Hopper and the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec. By 1963 the humour and the black outlines had set in. Caulfield began by drawing in the props with unerring skill – a jug, a table, a lamp, a bunch of grapes, their shapes essentialised in concise black outline. His screenprints carry some of the simple pleasures of colouring in. He dropped the black outlines in the 80s, perhaps irritated by comparisons with American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein,
Patrick CAULFIELD
Great Britain 1936-2005
Jug (Pink) 1974
Screenprint AP V/XIII (edition of 70)
880 x 710 image size
876 x 711 paper size
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