Patrick Caulfield
dal 26/8/2006 al 3/2/2007
Segnalato da
26/8/2006
Patrick Caulfield
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Following his death last year, Tate Liverpool will present a display of his work from the Tate Collection that brings together such important paintings as After Lunch 1975, and Interior with a Picture 1985-6 with a series of acclaimed screenprints.
Works from the Tate Collection
Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) is one of the major British artists of the
post-war era who produced some of the most enigmatic and iconic works of
the last fifty years.
Following his death last year, Tate Liverpool will
present a display of his work from the Tate Collection that brings
together such important paintings as After Lunch 1975, and Interior with
a Picture 1985-6 with a series of acclaimed screenprints.
Caulfield's
work radically re-imagines and reinvigorates traditional genres such as
the landscape, the still-life, and the domestic interior. His work is
characterised by the reduction of detail to areas of bold and flat
colour with objects delineated in solid outlines. Although often
celebrated as one of the leading proponents of Pop Art in Britain, he
distanced himself from any particular art movement by engaging with the
subject matter and styles from art history and maintaining a distinctive
individuality and originality.
For Caulfield 'nothing is stranger than life itself.' Finding
inspiration in the everyday world, his art shows scenes suspended in
stillness - a moment in time that evokes a melancholic and mysterious
sense of place. Human activity is rarely portrayed in his work and an
intense solitude is often suggested.
This gives the work a subtle and
complex double meaning: images are visually enticing, yet profoundly
poignant. Caulfield's later paintings combined realistic elements with
his typical reductive style. By deliberately placing naturalistic
elements in direct confrontation with stylized elements, his work
unsettles the distinctions between artifice and reality.
In 1964 Caulfield began making screenprints whose conceptual subtlety,
wit and visual intensity matched that of his paintings. Screenprinting
allowed Caulfield to dispense with detail and brushwork, elements that
he found 'distracting', and suited his tendency towards pictorial
precision. The immaculate surfaces of his works convey the impression of
an effortless, unified vision.
Born in London, Caulfield studied under Jack Smith at the Chelsea School
of Art (1956-60) and at the Royal College of Art (1960-63). He first
came to prominence in 1964 when he was included in New Generation at
London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, the exhibition which heralded the
birth of British Pop Art. His work has been exhibited widely nationally
and internationally, and is held in major international collections.
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock L3 - Liverpool